Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under a long-standing agreement, Ivy schools do not offer substantial aid to academic stars, although some schools have slightly readjusted their financial aid packets to attract top-quality students...
Instead of being a prize to attract to Harvard its traditional scholar-athelete, it has now become a prize for general excellence, he said. "Dammit, we still like to beat Yale," he added...
...practice when her term expires, and if she does eventually run for office, she is guilty of exploiting publicity, not payrolls or contracts. But long after Garguilo leaves Boston politics, she sees the finance commission becoming an ineffectual agency, as a result of the budget cuts, one that will attract few talented individuals because "No one is going to want to put their name on an agency that can't fill their mandate." Garguilo would like the finance commission's budget to be based on a percentage of the city's budget--.1 per cent is her recommendation...
Humorous speeches often attract and move the largest numbers of people and by no means are to be frowned upon. Mark O'Donnell '76, who wrote numerous plays and lyrics during his four years at Harvard, received the loudest applause of the day for his Ivy oration last year. In his speech he defined the Harvard Experience with the help of a Webster Dictionary and a good deal...
...report said efforts to attract minority group members have achieved mixed results. Overall, the numbers have slowly increased (minority acceptances are up 15 per cent this year), but Harvard still attracts only small numbers of certain minorities...