Word: attracted
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...benefits of using a REIT structure are threefold: private-equity firms can access equity capital quickly, use shares as currency in making future acquisitions and distribute a dividend to attract investors, says Steven Marks, managing director at Fitch Ratings...
...Barnes & Noble stores across the U.S. The Asia Literary Review (ALR) - a slick, expensive-looking quarterly magazine of writing from and about Asia - has come far since its early print runs of just a few hundred copies, when it was so little known that it struggled to attract enough content...
When congress voted in june to play car dealer, some observers fretted that offering consumers $3,500 to $4,500 to trade in a gas guzzler for a more fuel-efficient new car wasn't going to be generous enough to attract many takers...
...Turning our state into a terrorist penal colony is not how to attract new families and business investment.' PETE HOEKSTRA, Republican Representative from Michigan, opposing President Obama's proposal to transfer Guantánamo Bay detainees to facilities in Michigan or Kansas or put them on trial in U.S. courts...
Adelson may have changed planes, but he's not changing his strategy of using high-end dining, giant suites and plush convention spaces to attract customers. He does not believe that America is going to fundamentally change its values from extravagance to thrift. "There's no way this world will change. There's no way people are going to stop doing things they want to do ... People aren't going to say, 'I'm going to see Old Faithful or the redwoods instead of taking a trip to Vegas. Or I'll go to Cape Cod with a book...