Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then again, the small size of Harvard'sdepartment may ironically be a selling point whenit tries to attract scholars like McKay...
Though the inclusion of more ethics specialists may prove a slow process, the development of a required first-year module has been a highly visible commitment to the subject--a commitment that can only help to attract scholars...
...University has long used its extensive library resources to attract internationally known scholars to Cambridge for research. Containing about 11 million volumes in 98 libraries throughout the campus, Harvard's system is anchored by Widener, the largest of the University's libraries and the only research library of its size whose stacks are totally accessible...
...Bosket still finds ways to attract attention. While en route to court last month, he kicked a guard who was removing a leg manacle and then shouted to photographers, "Did you get that picture? Did you get that on film?" That act was reminiscent of the time last year when Bosket plunged a makeshift 11- in. knife into the chest of a guard, in full view of a newspaper reporter Bosket had enlisted to write his life story. The guard was critically injured but recovered. "Sensationalism sells newspapers," the baby-faced butcher blithely explains, "and the system responds to violence...
Paradoxically, mainline churches are being hurt by past success. Many are living off income earned from old wealth and feel no urgency to attract new supporters. They have also been lulled by their social status, which formerly made it possible to attract members without any effort. The Rev. Roger Zimmerman, who is industriously turning around a Disciples of Christ church near downtown Louisville, says that his socially prominent congregation long had a "white glove" mentality: "They didn't reach out and evangelize. They expected people to come of their own accord...