Word: attracted
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...improving education and training, and luring more skilled workers from overseas. The region's ambitions are vast - from the new economic cities being planned in Saudi Arabia to the huge construction projects rising up in Dubai to the renewable energy research being funded in Abu Dhabi. "But can we attract the talent to execute the projects we have in mind?" asked al-Shaikh...
...group got a lot of international attention when a drunken neighbor dressed as Darth Vader attacked several Jedi members with a crutch. Has going head to head with the Dark Side helped attract new recruits...
...level, the appeal of working-class TV is simple. Like such extreme-adventure shows as Man vs. Wild, the programs attract young males better than two-for-one pitchers. They're about men, almost exclusively: men sweating and swearing, men powered by coffee and doughnuts, men revving heavy equipment to heavy-metal sound tracks. But they're also a kind of riposte to the smirkiness and high-class problems of TV's upscale hits. You want an existential crisis? How about getting clocked across your freaking head with a steel oil-drill chain? And whereas big-network TV offers...
...long tail," far more documentaries are available than when movie theaters and video stores catered only to the most popular side of the market. Netflix carries close to 7,500 documentaries, allowing people already immersed in a cause to deepen their knowledge and commitment--and enabling proselytizers to attract new adherents...
...structure of the Harvard Art Museum buildings have been in the works since 2003, when current Museum director Thomas W. Lentz was appointed. The new Harvard Art Museum complex will be able to display more of the University’s collection than before, which Museum officials hope will attract more visitors, said spokesman Daron J. Manoogian. “Currently we are only able to display less than one percent of the collections,” he said. “We hope to create larger exhibition spaces.” Additionally, Manoogian hopes that putting...