Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reagan camp's interpretation of the results is largely accurate but somewhat exaggerated. No doubt Reagan did attract many Democrats and independents, but a lot of them were voters who regard themselves as Republicans yet always vote in the Democratic primary because, in Texas, that's where 95 per cent of all elections are decided. There are quite a few voters in Texas who have never pulled a Republican lever in a primary not a Democratic lever in a general election. Seeing a bloody free-for-all on the GOP side, most of them probably decided to jump...
Hunt said that although the course tended to attract those who don't like to take finals, the lack of a final also scared some away. He said that most students did the reading regularly, and that attendance at lectures had been steady...
...Supreme Court pointed out, HUD does have the power right now to support low-cost housing in the suburbs that could attract inner-city minority groups. Under a provision, known as Section 8, of the 1974 housing law, HUD subsidizes the rent paid by low-income families who live in new, renovated or existing housing. But in this fiscal year, only a small portion of the 325,000 dwelling units under the program are housing families from minority groups in predominantly white areas...
...that's all right. Her work gives her a logical reason to display herself, clothed and half-clothed in an erotic manner. It even supplies a certain twisted logic for the inevitable attack on her. She is, after all, a professional sex object. Why should she not attract-perhaps even seem to invite-the sadistic attention of a rapist...
...such letter to any man outside her immediate family. She was desperate to impress her new relation, but was desperately unsure how to go about it. What is interesting is that she does not follow her own prescription and speak her mind, but relies instead on her artfulness to attract Bell's attention...