Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have have very little before; and there is no insurance that they will be able to handle the new responsibilities. According to one estimate, twelve per cent of New York City's principals are former physical education instructors. Sizer maintains that giving the principal's office new authority will attract better men to the job. But this remains to be seen...
...crisis is finally resolved, Israel must somehow make peace with the Arabs if it is to survive as a nation. It cannot prosper indefinitely, or even exist indefinitely, barricaded against its neighbors. If Israel is to continue to thrive, it has to find a way to trade in peace, attract new investment and live within its means; it now spends a third of its national budget on defense...
...with the rise in population, requires foreign investments of at least $1 billion. Because he has lost control of the Senate to the opposition Liberal Party and a handful of defectors from his own Nacionalista Party, Marcos has been unable to get through the laws that he needs to attract money from abroad. His plan to distribute land to the peasants has run aground on the obduracy of the landlords and the ineffectiveness of his own administrators. He has made some headway in rooting out corrupt officials in the customs bureau, thus cutting down on smuggling losses...
...sweeping reformation for the Greek church. Referring to moral scandals that have rocked the hierarchy, he vowed to "purge the church of its unworthy ministers." He also noted that two-thirds of the nation's 9,000 priests have only a sixth-grade education or less. To attract better qualified clergy, he promised to increase priests' salaries (which currently range as low as $32.70 a month) through more profitable management of church landholdings...
...Arkansas becomes a model for fellow Governors. First Rockefeller decided to donate his modest gubernatorial salary of $10,000 a year toward construction of a chapel at a state hospital. Last week he announced that he would supplement the salaries of a dozen state officials in order to attract qualified personnel. Win estimated the cost of that public service to be between $20,000 and $25,000 annually...