Word: attracting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since its inception in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency has had a rocky history due to a combination of Presidential distrust and operational embarrassments. However, for most of its existence, the CIA managed to attract some of the best and the brightest--people lured to the idea of defending democracy, collecting and analyzing intelligence that could prevent the next World War or preempting a Soviet maneuver that could upset the delicate power balance of the Cold War. Now, in this post-Cold War era, the CIA has another war to wage. This time its adversary is on its own soil...
...pressure is mounting to attract top candidates as international problems become more complex and world order more unstable. Threats from "rogue states" such as North Korea and independent terrorists like Osama bin Ladin are becoming harder to predict and contain. And with the explosion of the Information Age there is unprecedented access to sensitive information that could pose dire consequences to national security...
...future of any organization is largely based on the talent it can attract. If helping to prevent a nuclear crisis or stabilizing a new democracy sounds attractive for a day's work, Harvard students may help themselves and the rest of the free world by finding out whether there's something they...
...constitutional amendment debated last night to remove the "Radcliffe" from the council's name failed to attract the three-quarters majority required for passage...
John Cleland, chief investment strategist at fund company Security Benefit Group, is so convinced that stocks will "melt up" next month that he has begun a special marketing campaign to attract new money by year's end. "Y2K will be the biggest nonevent in history," he predicts. "The door will not be wide enough for everyone who wants to buy stocks in January...