Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criminal trials a year in Bexar County (San Antonio), only half a dozen attract enough spectators to make judges even aware of their presence. Another 15 or so attract from two to eight people. As Judge Brown sees it, empty courtrooms adversely affect jurors. Concluding that no one cares, "a juror may be tempted to lay on a heavy sentence." Conversely, "he may decide that no one thinks the crime is serious and then assess a light sentence." Judge Brown is troubled: "When a man's liberty or life is at stake in my court, I like to think...
...career president; Werner, who has a doctorate in chemistry from Columbia, joined GAF as a researcher in 1938. Even though he introduced professionalism to the job, he was hindered because he could make no acquisitions by exchanging GAF's sequestered stock, nor offer stock options to attract executives...
...mean the American Automobile Association to millions of Americans, but to cities, states and corporations in search of money it is a supreme symbol of solvency, the highest accolade Wall Street can bestow. Armed with that much-sought but carefully dispensed rating, a borrower can attract more investors, get by with paying lower interest rates on loans, and generally profit by the blue-chip aura that prime rating bestows in the business world...
...their windows to see what all the fuss was about. By the time the lively group reached Lowell Lecture Hall for a rally, they numbered about 200. A spokesman for he Harvard chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society had predicted Monday that the rally would attract "up to 400 people...
...economy by buying Government securities in the open market and thus pumping money into the banking system. In Martin's view, the hike would not raise loan or mortgage rates, or affect the economy: "I think that it would have a negligible effect on the money supply." To attract more savings and further increase the supply of money, the Federal Reserve simultaneously allowed banks to increase their maximum interest on savings deposits from 31% to 4%. The board thus hopes, in a deft balancing act, to hold long-term interest rates low at the same time that it raises...