Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primary campaign. Lance said the negotiations with the Teamsters had been handled by the bank's former chairman, King Cleveland. Added he: "It was the kind of business that an aggressive trust department would go after, and I saw nothing wrong with our being involved in trying to attract that business...
Jose Cabranes, Yale's attorney, denounced the suit as "reckless and obviously designed to attract maximum publicity for groundless charges." He said the university already had a system for investigating the harassment of students -but it is a system set up last year only to aid blacks, and has never been used to investigate sexual coercion charges...
...Shubert Organization, which owns the Winter Garden, where the show is playing in New York, likes to think of Beatlemania as something that could help revitalize the Broadway audience rather than change the theater itself. "All of us in the last several years have been trying to attract this audience," he says. "The kind of audience that will see this show will then go to Annie or A Chorus Line or The Wiz." Asks Producer Krebs: "Who is to say that Beatlemania is not what a significant portion of the theater will turn...
...Research Triangle is hoping to attract other kinds of tenants as well. One, the newly formed National Humanities Center, has already broken ground at the park. Funded by private foundations and corporations, the center aims to encourage interdisciplinary research in such fields as history, religion, philosophy, sociology and the arts. It will finance nine months of carefree study for 25 to 50 scholars at a time. Eventually the center would like to enhance the influence of the humanities in the same way that Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study boosted the reputation of physics and mathematics by nurturing such...
...designed by Bridge Builder Gustave Eiffel in a competition for the Paris Exposition of 1889, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution (among the losing ideas: an oversized guillotine, a giant garden sprinkler poised over the city). There were dire predictions that the structure would attract lightning and somehow kill all the fish in the Seine. Builder Eiffel displayed his disdain for doomsayers by working and entertaining guests in an apartment he had constructed at the top. He was right: heavy storms scarcely sway the tower, and winds pass through the lacy ironwork, budging it no more than...