Word: attract
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Rehnquist also declined to require the "actual malice" test in all cases involving coverage of judicial proceedings. The majority did send the case back to Florida courts for a determination on whether the magazine had acted "with fault." Meanwhile, journalists everywhere are now on notice that people who attract the sort of public interest that does not involve a true "public controversy" will be treated under libel law just like the average private citizen...
...considered if more powerful department chairmen could be found. Several members saw that the academic qualifications of a Dean are secondary to the need to find someone to stimulate the sense of purpose and mission which the Committee found lacking in both faculty and students, as well as to attract a higher claibre of faculty. It was suggested that students are seeking meaning and self-respect in their profession and that commanding presence in a Dean is preferable to missionary zeal which can cool in the real world. As the architect himself is not the patron, figures from government...
James A. True, a representative for the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachussetts (AICUM), told the taxation committee that the ability of Massachusetts to attract students could be weakened by this taxation...
...movement's capacity to attract large segments of the rural population was barely audible to the outside world, except for a trickle of journalists and representatives from Afro-American organizations, willing to make the eight week journey on foot to UNITA bases within central Angola. Impressive reports about the movement filtered out by word-of-mouth accounts from the Namibian Liberation Movement--SWAPO--guerrillas. While SWAPO was forced to maintain a diplomatic alliance with MPLA because of its Soviet backing, SWAPO operated against the South African army (and continues to do so today) from UNITA bases in Southern Angola...
...recession and the consequent decline in capital investment has exposed the debility of the "Operation Bootstrap" economic expansion plan, the foundation of Puerto Rico's economy. Begun in 1947 by the first elected government, Bootstrap and it's successor "Fomento" offered tax exemptions, government assistance, and cheap labor to attract runaway industry from the United States. At its onset, the Bootstrap program was the vigorous economic ideology of Puerto Rico's first mass reform movement, the Popular Democratic Party (PDP). The founders of the party saw Bootstrap as the way to make Puerto Rico's status as a self-governing...