Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some critics, citing Boston's Prudential Center, argue that the City may have to make tax deals to attract developers which will erase much of the expected revenue. They also point to the $1.5 million in taxes that would have been collected over the past few years if the previous industries in Kendall Square had not been demolished. According to the CRA's Remer, the CRA cannot offer tax breaks to developers, although the City itself may decide...
Guinier's report charged that the University had failed to live up to its commitment to the Afro-American Studies Department in providing for the establishment of the DuBois Institute and in providing funds necessary to attract first-rate Faculty members...
...issued a report that called for the Department to be integrated further into the mainstream of intellectual life at Harvard by permitting students to combine a concentration in Afro with the study of another discipline, and by using joint appointments between Afro-American Studies and other departments to attract new Faculty members...
...population (currently almost 3,000,000) to a maximum of 4,000,000, instead of the 10 million that some overly enthusiastic boosters contemplate. He will ask for a new master plan to prevent overdevelopment of the endangered Santa Monica Mountains. He hopes that his national prominence will attract the state and federal funds that he sorely needs. Unlike his predecessor, he does not plan to make so many trips out of the city for help or publicity. Let the world come to Tom Bradley-and maybe it will...
Nader has shown a rare ability to attract supporters from both sides of the generation gap. Last year he set up the Retired Professionals Action Group, which will shortly issue a searing report on the hearing-aid industry. College students are said to be apathetic and inward-turning these days, but Nader's representatives have no trouble recruiting the most able students for low-paying "Raider" jobs in the summertime. Even more important, some 41 student PIRGS-for Public Interest Research Groups-are now under way in 16 states. PIRG students make small contributions to support full-time consumer...