Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sperm whale. Other researchers confirmed his findings; the university's Office of Arid Lands Studies still publishes an occasional bulletin called Jojoba Happenings to promote cultivation of the bean. But until recently sperm-whale oil was still plentiful, and efforts to substitute jojoba oil did not attract much commercial enthusiasm...
...created nine new school districts. One of the districts will consist of 22 "magnet" schools spread throughout the city. The magnet schools, open to any Boston children as long as their enrollment conforms to citywide racial ratios, are designed to encourage voluntary desegregation by offering specialized courses that will attract students from other neighborhoods...
...guerilla war. Initially they fought the French under Ho Chi Minh. He was a mild Communist in those days, until he asked the U.S. for help and the U.S. came in on the side of the French. Ho then changed his attitudes, and went to extremes to attract people to his movement...
...jobs. Says he: "A successful business or professional man must have a facility with the liberal arts, the natural and social sciences and modern languages. But these must be put together with career skills such as business administration, hospital administration, law and medicine." Sawhill also thinks that N.Y.U. can attract more part-time and older students to its main campus. He promises to try to make education at the large urban university "a personal and warm experience...
...intense recruiting by alumni/ae organizations to attract more women applicants...