Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter had to pay a visit to Plains. Returning to his home town in Georgia is no longer pure pleasure for the President. Local merchants, worried about a drop-off in the number of tourists who thronged the town a year ago, expect him to stroll the streets and attract crowds during his well-publicized trips home. So the President grinned his way along jammed sidewalks for the mandatory stops at various local stores. Jimmy also had to pay a visit to Cousin Hugh Carter, whose tattletale book about the family has dismayed several of its members. He and Rosalynn...
...University begins reviewing its investment policy towards specific companies on a case-by-case basis. However, the pro-divesture groups' arguments will probably remain centered aroung two points. First, students note that divestitutre at Harvard -- which has by far the largest endowment of any university in the nation -- would attract heavy publicity, possibly helping the anti-apartheid movment elsewhere. The second point was perhaps most succintly expressed by Mary Nolan, assistant professor of history, in challenging Harvard Corporation members: "If you don't divest, you're an accomplice to apartheid and I think you should own up to that...
...inflation has frightened many foreigners into dumping dollars before they lose more purchasing power, but for the moment at least inflation has stopped getting worse; wholesale prices have risen more slowly this summer than they did last spring and winter. And the U.S. economy is strong enough to attract a flood of direct investment in factories and real estate from the very countries whose citizens are also dumping dollars...
...move, but in the end he may be obliged to go along with it. Several members of his party have criticized him for "political ineptitude" and called for his resignation. Six months ago, he drew nearly 200,000 people at a rally near Salisbury; nowadays his meetings rarely attract more than 500. His colleague on the Executive Council, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, is doing even worse. Last week he scheduled a political rally at a football stadium in northeastern Rhodesia. Only 15 people showed...
...staggered at depths ranging from 50 ft. to 250 ft. On the leaders near the squid used for bait we attached Cyalumes, plastic cylinders containing a glowing green chemical. The deep-dwelling swordfish has evolved eyes as big as silver dollars, and the Cyalume lights up the squid to attract the foraging broadbill...