Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent divisions in City politics might, Mahoney said, actually attract applicants. "It would be a real challenge... to prove that you were good enough to rise above politics and make yourself indispensable...
Orthodox rabbis in the U.S. claim that their synagogues are beginning to attract thousands of Jews who had previously been indifferent to the faith- especially young, middle-class couples. An example is Los Angeles' Beth Jacob temple: 44% of the congregation is made up of young professional persons under 38 years of age. More and more Jewish parents are sending their children to Orthodox day schools-which in the U.S. have expanded from 49 elementary and high schools in 1945 to 339 today...
Hayes then arose and said that the $20,000 salary of the Cambridge manager would not be enough to attract a professional. "A puppet is going to go in," he said. Hayes then began a 45-minute speech...
...sometimes hard to tell whether the rancor aroused by Johnson stemmed from his policies or his personality. An immensely complex, contradictory and occasionally downright unpleasant man, he has never managed to attract the insulating layer of loyalty that a Roosevelt or a Truman, however beleaguered, could fall back on. Consequently, when things began to go wrong, he had few defenders and all too many critics...
...protected; he pays taxes on only a fraction. When he dies, he leaves no large estate to be taxed; the money is still in the foundation, which has merely lost its most treasured trustee but which can easily replace him with someone else like, say, his son. The obvious attractions of the idea have brought ABC at least 250 members so far, and the number continues to grow, partly because of a bonus paid to those who bring in new members. In fact, the enterprise has become successful enough to attract the attention of Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman...