Word: attracted
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...student enrollment was evenly divided among blacks and whites and included six Chicanos. Afro 104 is "a good example of how the department can escape courses" with all-black enrollments, Foster says and he adds that Afro and black studies programs in other American universities "need to attract more students, especially white students...
...rooms with electric light. But the 20th century comforts carry an inflated modern price tag-and so, in Bicentennial 1976 of all years, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs the restoration, suffered a $703,000 deficit, its first ever. More red ink threatens this year unless foundation officials can attract more visitors and do some fancy cost cutting...
...added a $60 million endowment to cover future expenses. Income from that endowment and sales of tickets, gifts and hotel and restaurant services enabled the nonprofit foundation to cover its expenses through its first 49 5 years. But in 1976 Colonial Williamsburg officials expected the Bicentennial celebration to attract a record 1.4 million visitors-v. 1.2 million in 1975-and spent an extra $500,000 to prepare for them. Instead, potential tourists, pinched by inflation and recession and frightened by forecasts of bumper-to-bumper traffic at historic sites, stayed home. Attendance topped the 1975 figure by only...
...expect to attract a complete mixture, and I think we will be very successful," Rosenthal said...
...aside from the necessary sacrifice of a leading hero (Alec Guinnes' venerable elder, Ben Kenobi), the spacemen in white hats (or helmets) prevail in the end. A thoroughly unnpretentious narrative, the story succeeds in asassuring its audience that all modern movie need not be full of existentialist greys to attract reasonably discerning cineastes...