Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal thing, for nearly everyone who has met Goldwater-including Presidents Kennedy and Johnson-has professed to like him as a man. But many are repelled by his ideology, by the men who surround him, and by the stark fear that his fundamentalist theories will attract every manner of extremist to his banner. "He is a man filled with warmth," says former Eisenhower Speechwriter Malcolm Moos, who worked in Bill Scranton's foredoomed campaign. "But I fear his inability to curb his friends and some of the extreme zealots on the right...
...therefore less effective than DDT, which stays on the foliage and kills caterpillars for weeks or months. Lest the cautious chemical fail to save the forests, New Jersey's moth fighters also plan to drop by airplane 100,000 cardboard traps baited with a synthetic sex scent to attract male gypsy moths. New Jersey conservationists hope that when caterpillars that survive spraying turn into mature moths the males will be seduced by the scented traps and taken out of circulation. The females will then go unfertilized, and there will be no new generation of Jersey gypsy moths...
...rented store, and by 1911 had amassed enough money to buy a small general store in Melbourne-right on the present site of Myer's. He quickly became the city's most successful businessman, outraging competitors by such novel practices as introducing "price leaders" to attract customers, ordering his salesgirls to don hats and crowd around neglected bargain counters. Before he died in 1934, he had begun establishing branch stores in other Australian cities and had foresightedly picked his successor: Myer's current boss, Arnot ("Harry") Tolley...
...Senate members by $7,500-to $30,000-and provide increases ranging from 3% to 22 i% for 1,700,000 federal employees. On Cabinet-level salaries, the committee recommended an increase of $10,000 a year-up from $7,500 in the House version-to $35,000, to attract top talent to Government service. Approval by the full Senate was expected this week. > Raised, in a 48-to-21 Senate vote, the national debt ceiling from $315 billion to a record $324 billion for the coming fiscal year. >Authorized, by a 78-to-3 Senate vote, a $5.2 billion...
...effort is made to split them to widen ownership. Hoping to keep out of the public eye, Belgium's biggest producers of chemicals, matches, beer and sugar do not even list their shares on the Brussels Bourse. The tra dition of secrecy is stronger than the desire to attract mattress money; European companies commonly report only the skimpiest information about profits or forthcoming products. The suspicion is mutual. Many newcomers to Europe's almost affluent middle class prefer to put their money into tangible goods and real estate instead of stock certificates.Only one out of 40 Europeans owns...