Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditions in modern times." He spearheaded a drive that raised $30,000 for local development, whereupon an impressed regional government chipped in $60,000 for his projects. "I have told my people," he says, "that if they can save substantial sums of money in banks, they will attract loan capital to improve commercial and industrial life." An insurance broker before being installed as Alafin in 1971, he is also a former boxer and soccer player...
...prime has not yet discouraged ravenous loan demand from business. No reason why it should, either: strangely enough, borrowing at a 9½% prime is potentially profitable for some businessmen. Other interest rates have shot up even higher, including those that the bankers themselves must pay to attract deposits. As a result, last week a big corporation could borrow from the bank at the 9½% prime, then lend the same dollars right back to the same bank at a profit by buying a 90-day certificate of deposit (CD) yielding as much as 11%. Because heavy loan demand...
...argument over the Kennedy Library site hinges on two issues: parking and related facilities construction on the site. The library is expected to attract at least one million tourists a year, and cause a six to seven per cent increase in traffic in the area. Community groups have called upon the Kennedy Corporation to provide hundreds of parking spaces to accommodate the crowds...
Some observers speculate that the number of tourists that the library will attract, coupled with rising land costs, will radically change the character of commercial life in the Square, replacing small shops and coffee houses with fast-food stores and tourist-related enterprises. Oliver Brooks, chairman of the Harvard Square Task Force, a group of local residents, said that local businessmen are uncertain about the effect the Library will have on business. "Some feel that it will increase business, while others think that the crowds, the pushing and the shoving may lower volume," Brooks explained...
...Chrissie gives out a girlish squeal, "Oh, Jimmeee!" He is Jimmy Connors, 20, the hottest young U.S. player on the men's pro circuit. They met over a Coke at Wimbledon last year, and it has been a steady match ever since. Though their practice sessions invariably attract a fenceful of admiring fans, they some times end their workouts with some un abashed on-court smooching. An evening date usually consists of a movie and a McDonald's cheeseburger. Recently Chrissie won a major concession from her strict parents: her 11 p.m. cur few was moved back...