Word: attracted
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...place that people dream of coming back to, and they do; the phone book is a virtual Who Was Who of retired Navy and Marine Corps brass. To keep San Diego unspoiled, the city fathers long ago adopted rigid zoning laws. For decades, all attempts to attract new industry bogged down in the perennial controversy known locally as "geraniums v. smokestacks," and geraniums were practically growing in the streets...
Venereal disease does not attract many medical researchers. There never have been great numbers of syphilologists, and their numbers and efforts have been sharply reduced since the 1945 discovery that penicillin is a fast and almost certain cure for early syphilis. But last week, as the most prominent U.S. syphilologists met in Denver for a VD seminar, it became clear that the cutback in research is premature. What is urgently needed is a vaccine against the disease...
...Under Secretary, Fred Deming, said that his department might place a tax on U.S. bank loans abroad, which amounted to between $2 billion and $2.5 billion last year. The Treasury will also begin to sell an additional $100 million weekly in short-term securities, offering higher interest rates to attract buyers; by thus edging up interest rates, it hopes to keep at home more of the money that would ordinarily go abroad...
...year will gradually eliminate some 30,000 firemen's jobs, although at a cost of $80 million in wage increases and severance pay this year. With permission from the Government, which is gradually loosening its rigid regulation of the rails, the companies are also granting volume discounts to attract big shippers and are canceling lightly traveled passenger runs...
...Harvard Policy Committee (HPC), with its nine student members appointed by the Master and Senior Tutor of each House, will attract "students who think seriously about the long-range problems of the College," he said...