Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anyway? Where have you seen safety pins put through leather jackets and chains and clashing colors worn with jackboots? It's nowhere. It's nothing. It's a unique look, deliberately designed to resemble nothing else around it: it is an effort to isolate and distinguish, to glorify and attract attention to an otherwise anonymous and lost self...
...Autonomisti claimed that the police roundup of their members was orchestrated by Premier Andreotti's Christian Democrats to attract the law-and-order vote in the election. But the Communists, who have been anxious to dissociate themselves from Italy's nonstop terrorism, took a tough line against both the detained Autonomisti and reckless intellectuals in general. Ugo Pecchioli, a party spokesman, declared that responsibility for Italy's appalling level of terrorism-the toll already this year is 15 dead and 85 injured-lay not only with the bombers and assassins but also "with those who for years...
...Staff went fishing in the ocean and returned emptyhanded, they'd probably blame it on a lack of available fish. In truth, there is no shortage of young men; it's just that with its reluctance to change with the times, the military is able to attract only 13% of the country's youth. Changing of the hair regulations alone would probably attract millions more into the armed forces...
John Kerry, one of the founders of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, feels the VA is not generous in other areas either. He is particularly bitter about the medical care provided: "With the amount of money they pay, they don't attract graduates from the best medical schools. There are a lot of foreign doctors in the VA hospitals as a result, which is a morale problem, if not a medical...
...administration blames the problems of the Afro-American Studies department on the lack of professors willing to join the department. but while the University keeps the status and funding of the department so tenuous, it can hardly expect to attract outside professors...