Word: attract
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This brief review suggests that it is possible to attract large numbers of students to educational programs that will prepare them for important policy and administrative roles. But the public sector remains sufficiently disorderly and varied in its needs that it is scarcely possible to consider the creation of a single professional program along the lines of a faculty of medicine or law. Many key policymakers and administrators will continue to be drawn from a diverse group of specialists who may never have contemplated a career in public service at the time they graduated from college. As a result...
...That special recruiting efforts be instituted to attract more physical scientists in general, and more women scientists in particular...
Curiously, O'Hanlon's distaste for the old ways is matched by his distrust of the new. Ireland's energetic attempts to attract industry (and keep some of the natives at home) is described as "the selling of Ireland to foreign investors...
Lenders also argue that if they could charge temporarily higher rates to mortgage holders in times of tight credit, they could afford to pay higher rates to depositors. In that way, they could attract more deposits-and thus make more loans...
Lloyd noted that the females' responses to certain Photuris males are similar to the flashes the females give off when they walk, land or take flight. Perhaps these "locomotion" flashes were gradually modified to attract males of different species. In any event, the Photuris' wide range of mimicry suggests to Lloyd that the lowly firefly has a more complex brain than entomologists ever suspected...