Word: attracted
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Choose Your Flag. Elected in 1957 to succeed a military junta, Villeda Morales made a start on agrarian reform, got $11.6 million in Alliance for Progress aid and used it to launch a modest development plan to educate his 1,950,000 people, build roads and attract new industry. Personally popular and staunchly antiCommunist, he kept Honduran far leftists at arm's length, helped labor clean out Red infiltrators. "I am asking you," he once told a labor rally, "to choose between Communism and democracy, between the blue and white flag of Honduras and the red flag of Russia...
...case, the first in which civil rights demonstrators have been charged with a capital offense, is beginning to attract substantial publicity after a long news black-out. Sen. Harrison Williams (D-N.J.) spoke on the Senate floor last week about the case, and the two senators from Colorado, Perdew's home, have demanded FBI investigations...
Glimp added that the new system might make it easier for Harvard to attract students by removing ability to pay as a criterion for room allocation. Dean Moore agreed, calling the change another stop towards "democralisation" of the House system...
Another possible drawback--increased applications for Leverett and Quincy--was discounted by Dean Watson, who said he saw no reason why the new Houses would attract more sophomores than at present. He said there has actually been a "steady decrease" over the past two years in rate of application to these Houses...
...Banda stressed, however, that Nyasaland wished to attract European capital and would retain white civil servants after independence...