Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cushman is pushing for more sophisticated brands that will create a new Sears image to attract the better-off customer as well as the penny-conscious Sears regular. The average Sears dress, once tagged at $4.98, now costs $15.98. Sears also stresses bikinis and Lilly Daché hats, and its 51-lb., 1,716-page spring catalogue, now being distributed to 10 million customers, has a suave honey-blonde model on the cover, with a $6,500 diamond ring and luxurious mink stoles inside. Sears continues its recent penchant for stocking original art, $3,000 outboard motorboats and gold-plated...
Roman Catholic vice-presidential nominee would strengthen the national Democratic ticket because he would attract bloc votes in Northern cities. One national election later, when Kennedy went to the White House, Sorensen accompanied him as Special Counsel. He contributed heavily toward building Kennedy's domestic program, sat in on just about every major decision made in the White House. So close were Sorensen and the President that it was often hard to distinguish the point where Sorensen ended and Kennedy began...
...medium-sized consumer-goods industries. It will also buy shares in other businesses that have high potential, some risk, and a tough time securing capital from local sources. ADELA plans to raise $40 million from 80 or more companies in the rich Northern Hemisphere; with this it hopes to attract another $160 million from such sources as the World Bank and the Latin American moneymen, who are normally wary of investing in their own homelands. So far, a dozen firms have pledged up to $500,000 each, including Italy's Fiat, Belgium's Petrofina, Switzerland's Swiss...
...giant horseshoe driveway bordered by artificial ponds, the mansion glistens by day with $1,000,000 worth of solar screens intended to reflect the sunlight and reduce heat, and by night is an explosion of brilliance, studded from top to bottom with dazzling fluorescent lights that are said to attract most of Monrovia's flies. Because of the uncertainty of the city's public utilities, the mansion has its own emergency power plant, water supply and sewage system. Such lavish accouterments plus some eyebrow-raising financing methods explain why the cost of the vast pile has soared from...
...airlines, which would like to attract more passengers in the offseason, attached one disappointing rider to the agreement: during the ten weeks of summer, when 65% of all U.S. tourist travel to Europe takes place, the economy fare will be cut only...