Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biden traveled the country last week, he was trailed by doubts about his ability to convert paper assets to real ones. His overtures to the new generation should have helped him attract support from Gary Hart's ruined campaign, but so far few voters have followed. Some party workers are put off by Biden's verbal excesses. Says an Iowa activist whom Biden has unsuccessfully courted: "He might just talk himself out of the nomination...
...searching for labor. Child-care arrangements, he says, will be the "fringe benefits of the 1990s." The economics of the situation, if nothing else, will provoke a change in the attitude of business, just as the politics of the situation is changing the attitude of government. In order to attract the necessary women -- and men -- employers are going to have to help them find ways to cope more easily with their duties as parents...
...also severed the western half of the city from Berlin's rich historical center and deprived West Berliners of access to the East's many parks. What is more, the cutoff of laborers from East Berlin prompted West Berlin to undertake a crash program of apartment building to attract new workers from West Germany and abroad. The main result was slapdash, tired- looking Alphaville architecture, Interbau without airs...
Though Israel and Jordan are still technically at war, the border has been peaceful for years. Chantal sees Arabs only when she visits Jerusalem, an hour's drive southwest. As a result, despite Gilgal's harsh desert climate, this self-contained commune continues to attract young families like the Cohens. Indeed, many of the amenities of city life -- color television, air conditioning -- are starting to find their way to the kibbutz. When asked how they would feel if, as part of a peace agreement with Jordan, they were forced to leave the place, the couple look bewildered...
...country, who had distinguished himself at Le Cirque. What was right for Arcadia and fancy French restaurants would not be right for "21," doubters said, fearing nothing so much as an invasion of foodies and yuppies. Yet faced with an aging clientele, the new team clearly had to attract a younger, more style-conscious audience. New or old, all "21" customers had better bring money: the prices are now even more astronomical than they used to be. (For real plungers, there is a new members-only breakfast club, with a $1,500 initiation fee and $250 annual dues. Then...