Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legislator who is in the forefront of brash new band of growth critics. Led successful campaign against locating the 1976 Winter Olympics in Vail and Steamboat Springs, on ground that the Games would cost the taxpayers too much, lead to overdevelopment of trailer parks, second homes and industry and attract huge crowds of people - some of whom might settle in Colorado...
Officials for the Sheraton-Park defended the Vice President's rent discount as routine 1br national celebrities whose residence at the hotel would enhance its reputation and attract more business. (Others who got similar discounts, according to the hotel, included Hostess Perle Mesta, television's Lawrence Spivak, former Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien, former Treasury Secretary John Connally and former Chief Justice Earl Warren.) Rash said his gifts were "strictly on a personal, family, nonpolitical basis." Neither Dundore nor Jones would comment. Agnew's press secretary, J. Marsh Thomson, said he would not comment...
Nixon and his advisers had some reason to follow Burns' lead. For one thing, the variable tax plans could be a valuable fine-tuning mechanism in U.S. fiscal policy. Perhaps more to the point−taxes being one issue that is guaranteed to attract attention−Nixon may have spotted a chance to appear to be seizing the initiative, fighting inflation, attending to "the business of the people...
Young said the upperclass advisers system probably has to be organized better to attract more upperclassmen. This year many prospective upperclass advisers did not learn they were to live in the Yard until August...
...stiff bidding of these amateur antiquaries has made much of Harvard's collection too valuable to risk exhibiting, their uneducated enthusiasm has depressed its worth in the marketplace of ideas. It is scarcely surprising, with more interior decorators than scientists in the field, that scientific artifacts do not attract any significant number of scrupulous scholars. --From an account of Harvard's collection of antique scientific instruments, with photographs in color, by Christopher S. Johnson...