Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They laughed when a brave band of Seattle promoters sat down to play that great marketing game called "world's fair." Seattle, said the scoffers, was too far away to attract many visitors, and besides, world's fairs have hardly ever been known to earn money. But by last week, as the 6,000,000th visitor clinked through the turnstiles, Seattle plainly had made...
...stayed in this community has been permitted to hold a professional job, in the white man's sense of the word. As a consequence the most ambitious young people develop skills either in positions where white men will accept themselves such as catering or where they can attract a great deal of fairly high priced Negro business, such as directing funerals or in positions where they can gain their community's unquestioning respect, such as pastoring in a Negro Church or teaching in the Negro High School...
...find clients, who mostly came from Georgia, Pkhaladze hired agents on a commission basis or made a direct pitch by longdistance phone. In Moscow he organized a ring of bright students to take his clients' entrance exams. The ringers were experts at passing just well enough to attract no attention; they got $2.88 a day plus an $11 bonus for each test. As an added service, Pkhaladze supplied term papers on a piece-rate basis of $22 to $77 and bribed conniving college officials...
...army must be made attractive enough to attract volunteers," Harvey asserted, " because the modern military service needs skilled and dedicated technicians, not drafted tin soldiers...
...import Japanese capital and ideas to utilize it." In Washington, red-faced Administration officials hastily set the record straight. Nihon Keizai had built its overblown story on brochures that the Commerce Department sent last March to U.S. embassies in Europe and Japan. They were part of a campaign to attract more foreign investment to the U.S. as a way to alleviate unemployment and the balance-of-payments deficit. Though the Japanese were among the recipients, the Commerce Department really expected no significant Japanese response because of high U.S. labor costs and tight Japanese restrictions on capital exports...