Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just because it can attract volunteers for less controversial projects, this does not mean the Administration should not seriously consider the opinions of the delegates at the NSA conference...
Members of the CRA were not diabolical capitalists, but they did see renewal primarily as a business proportion: an opportunity to improve the city's tax base and to attract industry. Of course, tax base is a legitimate concern of any community and is a part of any renewal program. Moreover industry moving out of Cambridge to Route 128 is understandably painful to the city's businessmen. Renewal would help to stop the exodus...
...high as it might seem. Adds Obie: "The whole shebang-lot, tunnel, subway cars, the works-costs us only about $200 per parking space." Other downtown merchants, anticipating the Leonards' bringing customers painlessly into the area, have begun sprucing up their own store fronts to attract as many as they can. The Leonards don't mind, since they have first crack at riders of their private subway...
...York and Chicago firm called the Fantus Co. Fantus is the world's largest and busiest company devoted to an increasingly important specialty: searching out new plant sites for corporations and advising job-starved towns on what sort of new industries they are best suited to attract. Last week it started work on the most far-reaching project in its 42-year history: a year-long study to determine the industries that should be located along a 400-mile stretch of the twisting Loire River and its tributary, the Cher, which France plans to develop with a $1.2 billion...
...make chop suey, Fantus found it a new resident in Chun King Corp. The Fantus report on Evansville, Ind., so strongly criticized the town's attitude ("Evansville people resent anyone in power . . . politics is a dirty word") that it inspired civic reform and later enabled the city to attract new plants...