Word: attracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Office for the Arts hopes the new box office location will attract more student event holders and ticket buyers due to its central location, said Box Office Manager Tina L. Smith...
...hate groups have not achieved great financial or political power; in fact, the old Aryan Nation-style groups are struggling. But authorities believe violence motivated by hate is increasing, in part because hate groups now wield powerful new tools, including the Internet and the arts of media management, to attract a different breed of racist. More college kids and suburban residents have joined, and WCOTC is even making direct appeals to women. Also drawn to the fiery words are loners who feel profoundly disaffected by societal change, young men who are already on the edge of violence...
...everybody is in favor of the rescue mission. Some diehards argue that the best way to protect the mountains is to leave them alone; new trails, they fear, will only attract more climbers. But Keith Desrosiers, the initiative's executive director, argues that they will come anyway. "More people are moving here; more hikers are coming," he says. "That's a given." Unless the climbers are channeled up the mountains in an orderly fashion, he fears, the mountains will be overrun...
Africa, in fact, is awash with ecotourist ventures. In Zimbabwe a partnership has blossomed between the government and local communities to conserve the natural environment and manage wildlife resources as a way to attract tourist dollars. In South Africa the Conservation Corp., set up in 1991, has grown into Africa's largest ecotourism group, with 2,500 employees and $40 million in capitalization...
This Parisian sophistication and sense of aesthetics continues to attract painters, dreamers and tourists as it has for centuries. But in the new France that brought us Liberte, Egalite et Fraternite, these vestiges of the older aristocratic days are more than a little surprising among those who advocate "social justice" at all costs. Would the leaders of the French revolution be pleased to learn that, near the Place de la Concorde, where they beheaded Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI for their decadence and officially ended the absolute rule of the monarchy, there now stands one of the most expensive hotels...