Word: attract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those in the GSAS recruiting idea, in terms of passing the buck onto the centralized system. But Bok's additional proposals for more fellowships for minorities and for summer programs exposing minority students to graduate schools are both good and should be included in the overall strategy to attract more minority students to graduate schools...
Development could turn into the big issue of an otherwise lackluster campaign. After a 5-4 vote last spring to approve the Kendall Square project, the city found that they couldn't attract any developers. Councilor Daniel J. Clinton blames this on the economy, but Saundra Graham said she believes that "no developers are going to come in on a 5-4 vote, because they know that an election could boot them...
...Feel. Chrysler's big effort this year is the introduction of two new lines of middle-sized "small luxury cars," the Plymouth Volare and the Dodge Aspen. They are part of an ambitious effort by the company to attract more of the kind of higher-income-bracket, relatively recession-resistant customers who have been buying the successful new $5,000 Chrysler Cordoba. The Volare and Aspen lines will include sport coupe, sedan and station-wagon models, each featuring all-independent suspension to give big-car driving feel...
...three-to-one ratio in the Yard takes a little getting used to. Men in the all-male entries often find it hard to get to know Harvard women, and hold many mixers in attempts to attract them and women from other colleges around Boston. There are always busloads of women from Wellesley in the Yard on weekends, and during the course of the year almost every male freshman goes to at least one mixer out there...
...train young men for the Protestant ministry; the University was founded in piety, and, some say, that piety lives on (it's just a little harder to find these days, having become sort of secularized). On the surface Harvard is a fairly Godless place, and President Pusey used to attract a great deal of derision by saying things about "the present low estate of religion at Harvard." Someone once asked Pusey what the single most important quality for a Harvard president was, and he answered "a belief in God," but nobody says that sort of thing any more...