Word: attracting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coalition Catholic-Liberal government. Cried one: "You not only condemn to death the 18,000 Borinage miners but the entire region-its shopkeepers, all other industries, everyone who is dependent on them." Catholic Deputy Fred-Bertrand, a former miner, shouted in reply: "Do you think you'll attract foreign companies and new investment by creating this revolution?" A government minister promised "replacement jobs" for the miners but was hooted down when unable to give any details. Premier Gaston Eyskens refused to consider nationalizing the mines, argued that the liabilities as well as the benefits of the six-nation Coal...
...commuters' center is included in the Program for Harvard College. Dudley members expressed hope that the project would attract a donor willing to give a large sum toward the center's construction. Otherwise, the Administration would have to appropriate the needed $1 million...
...goal will be to recruit a student body not markedly distinguishable at entrance from those of first-rate colleges. Inevitably, the fact that New College is a new kind of institution will tend to attract, during the first years, students to whom pioneering makes an appeal. That will be all to the good...
...reason for the possible change of scene was the lack of immediate funds needed to build a new center. A part of the Program for Harvard College, the proposed $1 million structure on Plympton and Mount Auburn Streets has yet to attract a donor willing to contribute a sizeable amount...
Harris noted, however, that certain courses, such as the classics or theoretical physics, which attract only a small number of students, have a "definite educational value." These courses could be given in alternate years, he suggested...