Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospitals like New York's Bellevue which has about 100 foreign physicians, can choose the most promising foreign medical school graduates, who have less difficulty getting past the examination hurdle. The pinch comes in hospitals that have no affiliation with a medical school, need A.M.A.A.H.A. accreditation to attract good U.S. graduates. Six of the twelve foreign-trained doctors in Rhode Island's State Hospital for Mental Diseases flunked the exams, and one New York City hospital faces loss of a quarter of its house staff...
High Standards. They also attract early bloomers: 63% of current freshmen at St. Paul's Macalester were in the upper 5% of their high school classes; 20 are National Merit Scholars. Missouri's West minster, where Winston Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946, boasts that not one of its recommended graduates has been turned down at a medical school of his choice for three decades...
...city level, Scranton has come up with one of the most imaginative programs. Hit by a cut in mining workers from 17.910 in 1940 to about 2,200 this year, Scranton set out to attract new employers by offering to build them a modern factory to meet their specifications. The city paid for all construction, charged the company only rent. The plan was first financed by the sale of municipal bonds, but the public has chipped in willingly with outright donations to keep the fund going. About 30 community-financed plants have been built at a cost of nearly...
Instead of concentrating solely on industrial plants, many communities now realize that their biggest hope is to create or attract more service industries. Pennsylvania's service industry employment has steadily increased, jumped from 79,000 in 1950 to 103,900 this year. By attracting enough factories to employ 10,000 people, Scranton figured that it created 17,000 additional jobs in the service industries, retail businesses and professions. One reason: an average of three people leave the relief rolls for every new job created, thus increasing the market for services...
Buck pointed out that the University needs the best facilities to attract the best students and professors, and it has a responsibility to provide a "library worthy of them...