Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody would claim that the primary process illuminates all the major presidential attributes in character and intellect. It does not tell much about the all-important ability to select and attract talent; primary campaigns can go a long way (Carter, Reagan) with surprisingly small staffs of home-state intimates...
There is no doubting Harvard's ability to attract big international grant money. Bok says offers are being turned away faster than they are being accepted by the University; they are pouring in even without embarrassing fundraising trips to the Persian Gulf to solicit contracts and contributions for Harvard...
Moon's church, an apparently growing religious-political network active across the United States, has frequently used scholars to attract audiences to their meetings...
...brain drain," and as a result, some of the nation's 120 black colleges and universities are in jeopardy. Generally committed to accepting the financially strapped graduates of inadequate secondary schools, they are now hard pressed to enroll more qualified black students, to improve their faculty and to attract precious research grants. The colleges derive a large portion of their income from state and federal grants. Such funding is leveling off, which, because of inflation, means a loss of real income...
...their new problems therefore is how to attract white students. Complains Morehouse President Hugh Gloster: "In a country where foundations and corporations have provided millions of dollars to predominantly white colleges to recruit black students, I know of no black college that has received a large grant providing scholarship money to attract white students...