Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building, the Federal Housing Administration last week eased credit for home buyers, second such move in two weeks. Most buyers will no longer have to put up cash for closing costs in buying a new house, but can tack them on the mortgage loan, thus lowering down payments. To attract more lenders, the agency increased allowable discounts (to a maximum 3%) on FHA-backed mortgages in 17 Western states, where mortgage money is tight...
What I am proposing is a charge that would make it possible to attract able young men into the teaching profession. With the faculty experiencing a deterioration of economic status of 50 per cent vis-a-vis the rest of the population in 25 years and with demand for faculty rising four times as fast as for the whole working population in the next 15 years, an improved economic position of faculty is indispensable to maintain the high quality of a college education and in particular of a Harvard education... Seymour E. Harris, Professor of Economics
...prime functions plainly is to house well-heeled amateur gamblers in soporific luxury and feed them efficiently to the hemisphere's swankiest casino, a domed, elliptical hall with gold-leafed walls, 85 slot machines and 17 tables for craps, blackjack and roulette. One effect was to attract to the opening a fortnight ago the largest collection of permanently established floating crapshooters seen east of Las Vegas, plus dozens of big-time Miami Beach horseplayers...
Across the U.S. the sales picture was mixed. "There is simply no business," said an Atlanta Plymouth dealer. "We aren't even able to attract window-shoppers." Said a White Plains, N.Y. Cadillac and Oldsmobile dealer: "Sales are very excellent this year-at least 15% to 20% better than a year...
Originally offered ten years ago by the English Department, the course was later relocated in the General Education field as an upper level Humanities course. It was presented in an effort to attract the non-concentrator as well as the English major...