Word: attracted
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After presenting information theory in a way that should attract none but the credulous ("intuitively"), he rehashes and relabels the audiology of Stevens and Davis, date 1938. Psychophysics has advanced since then. The translator has inserted one wistful reference to the sone and mel scales of loudness and pitch, but that is no substitute for the complete reworking need. In the entire discussion of the sonic message, the "information theory" so painfully presented before plays no practical role...
Departments often argue--and with some justification--that they do not have sufficient resources to meet the demands of the special programs. But the policy of resistance is often deliberate: departments resent the ability of these interdepartmental programs to lure honors students, and resist their attempts to attract more staff...
...HEALTH. Another expansion of federal medical services that would go beyond the medicare program for the aged due to start July 1, authorize multibillion-dollar increases in expenditures intended to 1) attract more doctors to the U.S. Public Health Service through increased incentives such as higher pay, 2) treble grants to communities that organize coordinated assaults on local health problems, and 3) renovate the nation's hospitals-one-third of which, according to Johnson, "are now in obsolete condition," yet face a 15% patient load increase because of medicare...
...vicious cycle--a reputation for inaction does not attract action-oriented people. Young Dems echo each other in articulating the problem; few see a way out of the cycle. The panacea offered most frequently is leadership--a charismatic leader for the club who would both attract a devoted following and, in the words of a former Radcliffe coordinator, "get people to think they're giving their time for something worthwhile. It's all a question of security--people don't want to commit themselves to something that might be a bust. Freshman Cliffies are so vulnerable to being used...
Apologists look jealously at SDS, which with a membership one-eigth the size of Young Dems has managed to attract in the past year well over eight times the amount of attention. They say that Young Dems must resign itself to this poor showing because it will never be able to offer the kind of coherent ideology which attracts a dedicated membership. "We're not even a consensus, let alone a point of view," Weiner has said. "Most members identify more with the Democrats than with the Republicans, and that's about...