Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combat these problems, the ad hoc student group suggested that the GSAS set up a committee to oversee the entire admissions process, increase the financial aid available to minority students and hire a minority group member of attract candidates and help minority students once they enroll in the GSAS...
Although they agreed with the first two recommendations, GSAS administrators took issue with the third, disagreeing with the students' claim that only a minority group member would have the contacts in the outside world needed to attract minority applicants, and that only a minority group member could be truly sensitive to minority student needs...
...tempted to stop at someone else's home for dinner instead of going to their own. Once there, they might stay the rest of the year as well, bringing very bad luck. To avoid this, the Chinese believed it necessary either to abstain from cooking in order not to attract them into their homes with the smells of a good meal, a strategy obviously not in the interests of the living, or else to scare them away with firecrackers and dragons. But as the fear of these evil spirits declined in china, so did the impulse to ward them...
Historically, any claim that ancient voyagers came to America is likely to attract attention. Barry Fell has been on radio talk shows all over the country; articles have appeared in Saturday Review, Reader's Digest, and other publications, and the first edition of American B.C. has already sold...
...committee was originally formed by RUS last fall, but became independent to attract a larger and more diverse group of students, committee member Laura Lifsey '77 said yesterday...