Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crime-ridden inner cities. Even so, New York has done next to nothing to stem the exodus. Says Savas: "City officials look upon business as a convenient cow to be milked." Until recently, the city offered few of the tax breaks or sundry inducements that other places use to attract and keep industry. "New York City has had a totally planless economic development," says Herbert Bienstock, a U.S. Labor Department employment expert...
...fiscal crisis has deepened, the city has belatedly dangled a small carrot to attract business. The Economic Development Administration has started issuing bonds and using the proceeds to cover construction costs for certain industries that want to move to the city or expand their operations. There are also signs that the city's economy may be bottoming out. A recent report by the New School for Social Research suggests that New York has once again become cost-competitive with the rest of the country; because of overbuilding, office space, for example, has become less expensive...
Powell and Del Vecchio said they were "shocked" by figures reviewed in the report, but they said they do not plan to change the methods of hiring or new procedures to attract scholarship students...
Paralleling the sustained growth of the popularity of Ec 10 has been a disproportionate increase in the number of Economics concentrators. According to Case, many individuals are motivated to concentrate in the field for largely the same reasons that attract them to Ec 10, the department's only introductory offering. The ever-increasing number of students who in their freshman or sophomore years have somehow felt compelled to take Ec 10 later decide to stay on in the Economics Department...
...committee will set up tables at University dining halls to attract new members and distribute information to the student body. During the year they plan to publish a bulletin, distribute position papers on various issues, hold discussion groups, organize rallies and letter-writing campaigns and sponsor a series of films and speakers...