Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of year, some members of the sect exchange their saffron robes for red suits and white whiskers and begin chanting a Western mantra: "Ho, ho, ho." Santa Claus may not be a Hindu deity, but the Hare Krishna people have discovered that he has a divine power to attract charitable donations...
Even while they avoided complex social problems. Evangelical missionaries have always cured bodies as well as saved souls. There is a new emphasis, however, on help as a good thing in itself?rather than just as bait to attract converts. The number and variety of Evangelical projects at home are broadening dramatically as ministries bring care as well as conversion to the despairing and needy of America...
...report on how Brooklyn's billions of tax dollars are used by the Federal Government to transfer Brooklyn industry to the South and Southwest, which will use your denigrating article as a lure to attract more of our business...
...Hunts are not sure why the phenomenon arose and, with other researchers, are currently examining gull hormones for a possible answer. But the likely explanation is simply a shortage of males. If a female cannot attract a permanent mate, but can manage to become impregnated by a mated male, it makes sense to move in with another female who can share duties of protecting and feeding the young. Such behavior, says George Hunt, "would increase the probabilities of raising the young from zero to about 10%." So far the Hunts have "tentative, preliminary evidence" of a male shortage among...
Gavin said that although there are only nine men and women divers, the lack of a ten-meter platform would decrease Harvard's ability to attract Olympic-caliber divers...