Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Martin said the re-organization effort has two components. Harvard will have to build and purchase equipment for expensive research laboratories, and compete with other universities and eager industries to attract qualified faculty...
Proudfit declined to say how much it cost to start up the business, but he did say that to attract capital, the group prepared a 50-page business plan for potential investors to look at. "We didn't go to our parents for money," Proudfit said...
...defeat the purpose of a national service in the first place. Like the Peace Corps, a voluntary service would be very popular in its first few years, but eventually the idealism will fade, as it does with most voluntary efforts. And like the Peace Corps, a voluntary service would attract the people who need it least--the open-minded, civic-minded charitable ones who work at Phillips Brooks House. The people who need it most-the ignorant, apathetic, materialistic ones--would avoid voluntary service like the plague...
...future seemed all blue sky and candy. The former San Diego County supervisor had already earned a reputation as an innovative politician determined to help the community ward off urban sprawl, and as mayor he won approval for a new bay-front convention center and helped attract the 1988 Super Bowl to San Diego. So strong was the Hedgecock sentiment that last November voters awarded him a full four-year term as mayor, even though he had been indicted on conspiracy and perjury charges. His first trial ended in a hung jury last February. But last week a jury...
Irving Kristol, often described as the godfather of neoconservatism, came up with the notion about three years ago. The Public Interest (circ. 12,000), the neocon-servative quarterly devoted to domestic issues that he helped found 20 years ago, had shown that it could attract an in-tensely loyal audience. So why not start a similar journal on foreign policy? This week Kristol will test that idea when the National Interest hits the newsstands. The new quarterly, says Kristol, will provide a forum where conservatives "can argue with one another...