Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more things change, as a saying in my native language has it, the more they remain the same. America still excites the world's hopes and fears; it continues to attract immigrants, disquietude and hatred. The experiment that struck me so forcefully when I and my host country were young continues with undiminished vigor and uncertainty. To see this tumultuous process anew fills me with hope, misgivings and the desire to make a few more remarks on the ways this great land may yet fulfill or betray its destiny. In what follows, I will have occasion to repeat some...
...British Monarchy serves more as fodder for gossip columnists than anything else. Colleges and universities across this country attract students and professors who Harvard might otherwise retaining, and any reverence remaining for Harvard is counterbalanced by an equal dose of disdain...
Fisher cited increased efforts by non-Ivy schools to attract top minority students as the chief reason for the drop in minority matriculation...
...future President's first priority will be economic rehabilitation. The government of Incumbent President Salvador Jorge Blanco has managed to attract some foreign investors and reduce inflation from 38% to 14%. Nonetheless, the economy continues to be weighed down by a $3.6 billion foreign debt and an unemployment rate...
...eight survivors subsisted for four days and nights on meager rations of sea biscuits and gulps of water twice a day. "The days were barely tolerable," said Flanagan. "The nights were hell." The survivors used up their only three emergency flares and sighted six ships without being able to attract attention. Finally, on the fifth harrowing night, with Deckhand Leslie McNish using a flashlight to blink the international distress signal SOS, the shipwrecked survivors flagged down a Norwegian tanker 335 miles north of Puerto Rico and lived to tell of the Pride's sorrowful fall...