Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...various Friends of groups to help pay for major expenses such as team "training trips." The baseball team's spring vacation trip to California, for example, will be paid for largely as a result of the Varsity Club's fund-raising efforts. The Varsity Club also helps attract future Harvard athletes by paying for high school sportsmen who come to look at Harvard...
Only three of the actors in the opera are Harvard undergraduates. "Harvard is not a conservatory, so it does not attract many people who are vocally controlled enough to participate in opera," says Hellmold, who plays the governess. "So, it's necessary to audition 'outsiders...
...greatest chance toe enhance the reputation of their school. Although Harvard is widely noted for its efforts to teach the basic fundamentals of science, it has also begun to emphasize advanced research at the expense of the basics. For example, the University recently constructed a greenhouse to attract a professor from another university whose work deals with visible issues such as the effects of "nuclear winter." This is not to say that Harvard should not have gone to great lengths to attract the scholar, who is undoubtedly one of the finest botanists in the world, but the point is that...
Within a few years Pickens had found enough oil and gas to attract investors from throughout the Panhandle. He had also become a workaholic, and that cost Pickens his marriage. His wife took little interest in his work, and he paid scant attention to anything else. They were divorced in 1971. "It was almost jealousy," says their son Michael, 30, a Dallas stockbroker and the third of the couple's four children. "Everyone admired his success, and she did not even know what was going on." Debra, 35, the oldest child, remembers Pickens as an absentee father: "He worked...
...finish a theme song for a Steven Spielberg-produced adventure film called Goonies, and there were discussions about the master directing her new rock video. Nothing came of them in the end, but still it is not difficult to see how Lauper's slapstick winsomeness and unexpected soulfulness could attract a director who has such a proximate relationship to fantasy fulfilled...