Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Funakoshi readily concedes that it is not so much the quality of his coffee (a home-blended brew of charcoal-roasted grains freshly ground for each customer) or the decor of his establishment (a narrow, dark wooden hut decorated in rustic Mingei style), as the defiantly exorbitant prices that attract hordes of tourists to his coffee shop...
Soon after their voyage begins, more than 50% of submariners begin sleeping from twelve to 16 hours a day -simply to escape boredom. At the same time, sexual frustrations begin to increase. X-rated movies attract capacity crowds, and "crotch novels" pass quickly from hand to hand. Says Psychologist Benjamin Weybrew of the Naval Submarine Medical Center in Groton, Conn.: "The pornographic route has probably served a useful purpose." Some behaviorists even advocate pornographic libraries for each submarine to help alleviate tension...
From the very beginning the new concentration's critics claimed Harvard's Afro Department was an unworkable proposition. In 1969 the immediate issue was students voting rights on tenured faculty appointments. Critics suggested that Afro would never attract a top-notch teaching staff because no professor of any stature would subject himself to students' cross-examination...
Both Kilson and Patterson have suggested various plans to improve the academic quality of the Afro. Each believes that the first step necessary is improving the Department's faculty. Kilson and Patterson agree that in order to attract top scholars joint appointments must be created. To attract new faculty to Afro they must also be given positions in Harvard's older and more stable departments. This should be done, said Kilson, "even at the risk of having white faces in the [Afro] Department...
...bearer for women's rights, in a three-sets-out-of-five singles match in the Houston Astrodome. If only two-thirds of the stadium's 46,000 seats are filled-it may be a sellout, though ticket prices go up to $ 100-the contest will still attract the largest crowd ever to attend a tennis match. ABC, UPI which paid about $750,000 for the TV rights (compared with a mere $50,000 NBC put up to cover this year's Wimbledon tournament) will broadcast the event live in prime time. Bobby likes to call...