Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marathon, which runs from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. today in Memorial Hall, will feature two live bands, Robespierre and Bored of Education, and two local disc jockeys. The bands will play for the last four hours of the marathon, says Malone, both to encourage lagging marathoners and attract students to the open party...
...crowded calendars point up the extent to which California's legislative agenda has become a vehicle for ceaseless and extravagant campaign fund raising. Of course, using public office to attract political contributions is hardly unknown. But in California the practice has spiraled virtually out of control, leading to what an indignant private study commission called "a new political gold rush." In 1984, campaign spending for seats in the 80-member assembly and the 40-member state senate hit $45 million, by far the highest in the nation...
...urban areas where the insurgency is trying to attract the middle class, attitudes toward capitalist life-styles are more flexible. Front men in Manila, dressed in business suits and traveling in shiny cars, some equipped with phones, often make contacts in trendy restaurants or respectable offices. So enamored are most Filipinos of Western culture that the Communists have had to find a justification for "bourgeois pleasures." Argued an article in the Communist youth magazine Collegian Folio: "Boy George and break dancing . . . are minor questions in the category of fads that do not exert deep and long-lasting influences...
...have to take responsibility for the politics of the artists it chooses to honor. But one would expect the group to be responsible as human beings. And if the person they select to honor, like Stallone, preaches a liturgy of violence, they ought to realize that his presence will attract some attention from concerned citizens...
...program, the brainchild of Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, an expert on Japan, hopes to attract individuals who may become leading experts on international affairs at major universities across the country...