Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only because it helps fuel a vigorous campaign now and generous TV ads next winter, but also because it is a mark of momentum. In a crowded field that lacks a clear front runner, it is a test of early strength. Dukakis must still show that he can attract money from strangers. Two-thirds of his haul came from Massachusetts. Donors of Greek descent supplied some of the out-of-state money. Biden and Gephardt, by contrast, have built broader financial bases...
Minkow made himself over too. A scrawny, hyperactive youth, he became a body builder to attract girls. "I was no James Bond in high school," he told an interviewer. "I wanted the attention." He drove a bright red Ferrari, lived a bachelor's life in a million-dollar home and lolled around in a backyard swimming pool with a big black Z on the bottom...
...female singer to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart. The album's first single, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, scampered to the top of eight different Billboard hit lists, from Adult Contemporary to Crossover and from West Germany to Australia. Her "birth-to-death demographics" attract nearly every music listener and a few who just watch. "She can get the kids on the dance floor," says Narada Michael Walden, who produced I Wanna Dance and six other cuts on her new album, "then turn around and reach your grandmother...
Such antics would attract notice anyway, but some observers believe that last month's departure of Palace Spokesman Michael Shea has worsened the royal family's public relations problem. Shea, who held the job for almost ten years, knew how to subdue a potentially embarrassing story and treated reporters well. His skills would have come in handy three weeks ago when the Queen's youngest son Edward organized a charity event in which he, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Fergie dressed in Elizabethan garb and raucously led teams in mock medieval jousts. Reporters were kept in a tent...
Baldwin may be one of many women to be granted tenure by the School in the years to come, Hayes said. "We've done our level best to attract, hold, and nurture women faculty, and now we're seeing the payoff. I'd expect we'd see further payoffs,"he said...