Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Committee finds that Harvard salaries at the professional level are under most competitive pressure in the ten to twenty years after the Ph.D. degree, earlier in the natural sciences and later in the humanities, and that upward adjustments are necessary to attract scholars in this age range to Harvard and to discourage their movement away from Harvard. While recognizing the undesirability of abandoning the traditional Harvard principle of relative uniformity of compensation within ranks, the Committee recommends that some greater degree of administrative flexibility be regarded as appropriate in individual cases...
...Detroit, which has been the scene of some of this country's worst riots, is the most unpopular city. Chicago, another racially tense city, was almost as widely disliked as Detroit. Figures like these might convince to business based to try to improve their surroundings if they hope to attract new talent...
...week, TV Boss Harlech switches media to the cinema, fulfilling duties that make his signature mandatory on every film shown in Britain. As a censor, he complains, "You get criticized no matter what you do." In fact, Britain picks as its censors men whose judgments are unlikely to attract criticism, and Harlech has come in for little of it from either the public or the industry. No film buff, he views only the films that his staff screens out as controversial, recently decreed minor cuts in Ulysses and Fanny Hill...
...purpose is to attract those who want to sing great music well by having each chorus do fewer concerts in less rehearsal time," Forbes said...
That it is. At the same time it hit the College where it hurt most. Though fund raisers at Fay House may not worry about the one or two thousands seniors might donate this year, it will become increasingly difficult--indeed impossible--to attract foundation support if the College cannot demonstrate that a goodly percentage of alumnae are interested in its survival...