Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think this law is going to kill splendor in dining." Expense-accounters often ask for separate checks for liquor and food to keep both under $25; others put $24.50 of a $28 bill on their credit card and pay the rest in cash in order not to attract the attention...
...housing construction is particularly strong in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington. D.C.. and San Francisco, has also picked up in Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Phoenix and Seattle. In many places, builders try to attract customers by offering free one or more come-ons that they used to charge extra for: wall-to-wall carpeting, fully equipped kitchens, swimming pools and. in San Francisco, even sauna baths. This is largely in response to the challenge from apartment builders, who woo potential homeowners with such inducements as free moving, a bonus of trading stamps, several months' free rent or even free furniture...
Little Extras. When coin-ops first started, the talk was that they would soon put professional drycleaners out of business. Something quite different is happening. To attract customers, the successful coin-ops have had to expand their operations into spotting, pressing and other services, thus are becoming somewhat professional themselves. Many professionals, having lost some business to the coin-ops, have turned to selling coin-op-type service as a sideline, for cleaning materials from around the house and old clothes that do not need pressing. The general feeling at last week's convention was that there...
Something for Nothing. The one restraint on many nations in their get-rich-quick desire to seize foreign holdings is their acute need to attract more foreign investment. Many of the new African nations, who have all too little to expropriate as it is, have pledged to protect foreign capital; so have the oil sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, which profit so hugely from the presence of foreign-owned oil companies. But in many other places, nationalization is growing along with nationalism...
...volume to afford bigger, four-wheeled trucks. Toyo Kogyo switched to making rifles and airplane parts in World War II, escaped serious damage from Hiroshima's Abomb, which fell only three miles from its plant, because of freakish blast waves. The firm was too small to attract the attention of U.S. trustbusters at war's end, and quickly resumed production...