Word: attracted
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Singing Praises. In response to criticism from the business community, Jackson has made a series of out-of-state trips with the president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to try to attract new firms to the city. Last week the pair were in Paris singing the praises of their biracial home town. Jackson has also reacted diplomatically to what promises to be the most explosive issue in the near future: whether to incorporate adjacent communities into the city of Atlanta. Such a move would increase the city's tax base, but it would also dilute black voting strength...
...argues that the old system made it too easy for renegades like Steele to be reelected because the membership would vote for someone like him just in keep an eye on things. He cannot say what was wrong with that. Another argues that the election made it difficult to attract top quality Harvard alumni who might find an election humiliating. He does not say how he knows that Coop members would want someone on the board who found an election humiliating...
...that 86% of Californians expect that Brown will do either a good or at least a fair job in office. Brown is attempting to forge a new constituency that will cut across traditional liberal-conservative lines and gather support from both ends of the political spectrum. He aims to attract people who are discontented with the established institutions of business, labor and government, and who are moved by his calls for a return to individual initiative...
...Taiwan, the fleeing Nationalists did a better job economically than politically. They thwarted Taiwanese aspirations for self-rule. But land reform, followed by a successful drive to attract foreign capital, has transformed Taiwan into Asia's second fastest growing state, after Japan...
Reardon attributed the increase in the percentage of black applicants admitted to the improved quality of the black applicant pool and to the desire among alumni recruiters and Harvard admissions officials to attract only the most qualified black candidates...