Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would hope that this kind of research would not turn into a recruiting or seducing agency calculated to attract young scholars to the Government," Hoffmann said. To ensure that it doesn't, he continued the Administration must not be presented as something beyond criticism. "I have frankly found the reaction of many of my colleagues annoying," he continued. "They act as if students didn't have the right to ask questions of policymakers...
...Institute is not designed to recruit, he suggests, but rather it does change a student's perspective. It's object is to attract students to a study of today's policy problems at a point in their education when Ulam believes they should be exposed to history and theory. The Institute aims at exciting young people about becoming the Secretary of Defense -- "undergraduates should be left alone for a few years before they are faced with this kind of specialization...
...inter-disciplinary character of the Joint Center was originally regarded as one of its chief attractions. The PR brochure declares that, "If inter-dependent people create inter-linked problems, inter-disciplinary scholarship may be a prerequisite for effective action." Members of the Center are inclined to smile at such language. Most regard the institution as a kind of "academic holding company," designed to attract contributions and contracts that would not ordinarily be offered to individual researchers of university departments...
...Center's total budget. The other two-thirds comes from Foundation money, the Center's only grants and contracts that commit the Center to particular activities. Moynihan would like to reverse this ratio, in order to give the Center more flexibility and independence. But until he is able to attract more "unrestricted funds," he will have to go slow in changing the direction of Joint Center activity...
While San Francisco (pop. 750,000) planted seeds of growth, New York City (pop. 7,500,000) showed symptoms of shrinkage. Though the city is beefing up its effort to attract new industries, it drives old ones away by reason of costs and congestion, smog and stickups, traffic and taxes that rise in a wry ratio with strikes and relief rolls. Over the last decade, companies have followed the flood of families to suburbia's fresher air and greener acres, draining the city of 17,000 industrial jobs a year. And so far this year, the exodus has continued...