Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier polls generally had shown a woman vice-presidential candidate would attract about as many voters as she would repel. Politicians, and some pollsters, are not at all sure, though, that the surveys are correctly measuring the extent of potential backlash. They note that voters have been asked to respond to a theoretical situation that they have never actually had to face. One Republican pollster points out another factor that may distort the results: the majority of the people employed organizations to question voters are women, and men may hesitate to express unfavorable opinions of a woman candidate to them...
...powerful fusion of forces has been propelling the dollar upward. "It's not just a single factor," says Salomon Brothers Chief Economist Henry Kaufman. "It's the combination." High U.S. interest rates that attract foreign cash are among the major reasons. At 13%, the U.S. prime rate is at its loftiest since September 1982, and pressures from the huge federal deficit and the economic rebound are likely to drive the prime higher. High interest rates, of course, can be good for those with money in the bank...
...honeymoon proved short-lived, as the Hondurans have begun to suspect that the temporary U.S. presence might soon prove permanent. On the streets of Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, U.S. servicemen now attract baleful stares. When two G.I.s in a pickup truck hit a local student last May, an angry mob pounced on the vehicle and set it ablaze. Most important, after ousting Alvarez in a barracks coup last April, General Walter López Reyes lost no time in publicly repudiating his predecessor's policy as a "distortion in the use of power, which endangers Honduras' peace-loving...
Ever since Sakharov's latest hunger strike began to attract world attention, the Soviet press has been full of reports on the Jailed American Indian activist, who went on a fast in April and again in May to protest prison conditions. Peltier ended his hunger strike, but graphic Soviet newspaper accounts have continued to describe "an emaciated man, starved to exhaustion" and imprisoned on "charges trumped up by U.S. security services." The Reagan Administration points out that whatever absurd parallels Moscow may draw between the two cases, one difference remains: Sakharov has never been convicted of murder...
...paper is truly national. It is sold in all 50 states and is available on the day of publication to about 70% of the U.S. population. It seems to attract the expected audience of travelers and those who have recently moved and remain interested in their home states. It also serves as a second paper for readers whose home town dailies do not carry enough national news. Gannett hopes that USA Today will become the definitive newspaper of the television generation. Unlike big city dailies that have reacted to TV competition by becoming detailed and analytic, emphasizing the things...