Word: attracted
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...Corps campaign doesn't work, he'll have fun trying. More fun than the viewer, sometimes. While embedded with U.S. troops in Afghanistan, he gets to fire a rocket launcher. His reaction, and you could have guessed this: "That was awesome!" He also has advice for the locals. To attract tourists, Spurlock suggests, they should build a theme park. "You could say, 'Come to Tora Bora. It's da bomb!'" Sometimes he's most engaging when he's most jackassian...
...realized that my MCA [master's degree in Computer Applications] was not going to be enough." Her college in Nagpur - the giant city in central India that is a political and economic hub but has not acquired the cultural cosmopolitanism of Mumbai - had given her the technical qualifications that attract recruiters, "but I didn't have much self-confidence, and my English was a big problem." That's what brought her to one of the many finishing schools mushrooming in Bangalore. Six months and a Certificate Program in Executive Excellence later, her speech is peppered with Carnegie-isms. "I learned...
...without a work permit. “I’m sure all of the international science concentrators here will like this change,” Ilic said. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ’75 said in a press release that this rule will enable businesses to attract and retain highly skilled foreign workers, giving U.S. companies a competitive advantage in the world economy. “I am sure several U.S. firms in the high-tech sectors have very much welcomed this policy,” said Economics professor Pol Antràs. Cambridge City Councillor...
...analysts also complain that the industry has failed, because of negative public perceptions, to attract a new generation of petroleum engineers whose skill and innovation would be essential to future oil supplies...
...scale became much bigger when interest groups knew beforehand that they would be guaranteed prime-time television coverage. What was the Chinese government thinking? How could it send the People's Armed Police to beat up protesters, even push around foreign celebrities holding the torch, and not attract even more attention...