Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make money. At the time the idea came to them they were, as Anne says, "starving free-lancers" who were doing "you know, nice, normal pieces for The New York Times, Newsweek." And Anne is very matter-of-fact about why they chose to interview celebrities whose names would attract attention, rather than just the man on the street: "Very simple reason," she shrugs, "You gotta survive, when you're freelancing...
...foreign capital invested in South Africa is 18.6 per cent, compared to a world average return of 11 per cent. Nearly every large American corporation has investments in South Africa, for the forced cheap labor insures a high profit rate, and the government has done its best to attract investment. Although most American countries pulled out of Namibia last year when it seemed likely that the U.N. would expropriate all exports from Namibia, the government in South Africa seems to have enough international support to avoid a U.N. boycott. The U.S. government vetoed an attempt last year to exclude South...
...Faculty Council is also continuing to look into the problem of Harvard's inability to attract the best candidates for junior faculty positions in the natural sciences by beginning to study things like competing salaries and research opportunities at other schools...
Reed said yesterday that the half-hour rededication ceremony is an attempt to parallel the 1950 dedication at which Congressman John F. Kennedy '40 spoke. Kennedy's presence will hopefully attract a large crowd to the unveiling, Reed said. The mayor of Cambridge and the President of the Cambridge Historical Society spoke at the first ceremony...
...when the first class containing more than 100 of them were enrolled. Though blacks had graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe for almost a century, their academic qualifications had never been questioned on a large scale. Black students had been too small in number and too dispersed to attract much attention...