Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking advantage of the crush of visitors to charge exorbitant sums for short hops around town. On the edge of town, workmen are hammering the last exhibits together for the 30 countries that will be represented at the annual Tripoli International Fair, which opens next week and will attract a record influx of visitors...
...before coming up through the ranks himself. He now requires every Berkeley recruit to have at least two years of college, an extensive psychiatric examination before joining, and an average of 260 hours in classes during his first year. Senior patrolmen spend 50 hours a year studying. To attract and hold high-caliber men, Fording has successfully fought for good wages. As a result, Berkeley offers one of the highest police pay scales in the U.S.A sergeant starts at $862 a month. Says Fording: "You can't pay a policeman a garbage-man's salary and expect...
William Samuel Rosenberg began to attract attention as an undersized schoolboy. He became a winning sprinter "by jumping the gun without detection." Soon afterward he stopped growing. But he kept on running, and he never stopped jumping the competition. He was too tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato...
...expects beneficiary nations to "invest every possible resource in improving farming techniques, in school and hospital construction and in critical industry; make land reforms, tax changes and other basic adjustments necessary to transform their societies; face the population problem squarely and realistically; create the climate that will attract foreign investment and keep local money at home." In the past, recipients had only to agree with these criteria. Henceforth, they will have to show "solid evidence" of meeting them. The new policy seems custom-tailored by the chief of the Agency for International Development, David Bell, whose reputation as a tough...
...sales tax would not only provide new revenues, but would allow significant cuts in the exhorbitant Massachusetts property tax--now in some cases nearly twice the $70 per $1000 of valuation common in many other states. With these high valuation rates Massachusetts will be unable to attract and keep the industrial capital necessary to fill state coffers...