Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago the L.A. Aztecs were on the block for $150,000; now they are worth an even million, but the owners have rejected the bid. One of them, Pop Star-Soccer Freak Elton John, has brought George Best, onetime star forward for Manchester United, over from England to attract the local crowds. The biggest league-round draw is the New York Cosmos' legendary Pelé. Average attendance in the league in its first four weeks is roughly 10,000. And that should be boosted when League Commissioner Phil Woosnam signs a two-year deal with CBS to broadcast...
...themselves are fed up with the programs, Dole and Nyswander contend, largely because of the rigidity of the bureaucratic rules and the indifference and sometimes contempt of clinic staffs. The result: "The great majority of heroin addicts remain on the streets, and the programs have lost their ability to attract them to treatment...
...Yankelovich, Harris, Gallup and University of Michigan surveys place the percentage of voters who consider themselves Republican at between 18% and 25%, v. between 42% and 50% who consider themselves Democrats (the rest are self-styled independents). While Reagan backers insist that their man is now showing he can attract independents and Democrats, his following so far seems to be a narrowly based conservative bloc. "If Reagan succeeds in putting this coalition together," observes Marquette University Sociologist Wayne Youngquist, "it's not going to be a new majority, it's going to be a new minority...
...Annual 1812 Overture blast should attract throngs into a fully-bloomed Lowell House Courtyard this Sunday afternoon. Lowell tower the only shrine in the country housing real Russian bells, is reportedly one of the prime reasons that the tradition began there almost three decades ago. The group which organizes the event anticipates that this year no one who wants to play or listen will be turned away--they are stocked with parts for up to 20 ambitious bass drummers and scores of flutists...
Another factor in the resurgence of mergers is the growing willingness to sell out of small, privately owned firms with sales of $10 million or less. According to Niederhoffer, the owners of these businesses are still unable to attract enough investor interest to sell their shares publicly and raise capital to grow. At the same time, they fear that increased Government regulation of business is inevitable...