Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hopes to attract more volunteers to teach the "slower" half. Because teaching bright youngsters seems more appealing, few volunteers have taken up the challenge of teaching less intelligent student...
Most urban transit corporations, like the MTA and the New Haven Railroad, operate at huge losses and cannot afford the new facilities, the equipment and the more frequent schedules needed to attract more passengers. Consequently, revenue--and the level of equipment and service--continue to fall. The MTA carries far fewer people today than when it was formed in 1947, and it had a deficit last year of sixteen million dollars; the plight of the New Haven's commuter lines is well-known...
...Rome and from Budapest to London. The European economic miracle did in fact take some prostitutes off the streets-but only to put them in cars. The "klaxon girls'' of Milan cruise Cathedral Square in Lancias and Dauphines, discreetly tooting horns and flashing their headlights to attract men's attention. The latest fashion in Copenhagen has been created by "van-prostitutes," who cruise the streets in small trucks equipped with beds...
...accurate guide, the trend toward academicism in the College should hurt ROTC programs as well as extra-curricular activities. The Air Force will have to adjust even more than it has to the academic orientation of Harvard and similar universities if it is to be able to attract the elite college graduates which it desires
Liner Trains. Like most U.S. railroaders, Beeching also wants to carry more freight and fewer passengers. Hoping to attract more business from industry, he will ask for $280 million to start "Liner Train" service, in which piggyback trains would run between major British cities on frequent, fast schedules. Under Beeching's plan, which Parliament is expected to adopt, the comfortable sound of the puffing billies chugging through the British countryside will become a thing of the past. Beeching is willing to trade it for the rustle of pound notes...