Word: attracted
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...second issue on the Florida ballot, which would permit casino gambling on the state's economically troubled gold coast. Hotel owners have bankrolled a million-dollar campaign in its favor, but Governor Reubin Askew has mounted a sort of holy war against the proposition, arguing that gambling would attract organized crime. Polls show public sentiment to be running 2 to 1 against the proposal...
Similar pressures today generally take a financial form as colleges fold at an alarming rate. Riesman says financially weak schools often feel the need to differentiate themselves, if only slightly, from other schools in order to attract students. But change is risky because a school making the wrong choice may lose students and have to close. "If you get empty buildings, you wind up as a Holiday Inn," says Howard Solomon, dean of undergraduate studies and academic affairs at Tufts...
Riesman says students play a greater role than they realize in determining the fate of their curriculums. "Students vote with their feet and with their attention," he explains. Because professors dislike teaching semi-captive audiences trying merely to fulfill requirements, they try to design courses that attract eager and interested students...
Last week the businessmen sold the statue to Bud Scott, a basketball coach at a local college, who thinks that it will be. just the thing to attract people to his 110-acre campground, recreation area and Christian retreat. None of which would have bothered Lincoln, who once remarked during a campaign that "if the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined...
Pavlik said she thinks RUS has a "competent" group of representatives this fall, and that next semester's elections will attract more candidates because the legislature will help organize them...