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Word: attraction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides securing the endowment against inflation, the fund drive will help combat an overall decline in the real value of the average faculty income. "One long-range question is whether we're going to be able to attract the same quality of faculty," Thomas O'Brien, vice president for financial affairs, says...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Big Fund Drive: Arming for the Future | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Friday night's game against the tough Columbia squad, a team that is still hoping to attract an NIT bid, could be the battle for second place in the Ivies this year. The Crimson hoopsters looked great last weekend when they provided Harvard fans with two exciting last-second victories...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Last One in is a Rotten Egg | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

Arthur J. Kyriazis '80-2, one of the conference organizers, said yesterday "certain schools did not make adequate efforts to attract minority delegates...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Minority Students Boycott Final Session Of Little 11 Intercollegiate Conference | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...Padmor, an official in the Liberian Embassy to the United Nations, said his country was eager to attract international business, particularly companies interested in exporting Liberian products...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: Panelists From Business World Discuss Problems of Racism | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

...also never too late to read or reread Waugh. His vitality, matchless craftsmanship, audacious imagination and stinging perceptions ("She wore the livery of the highest fashion, but as one who dressed to inform rather than to attract") have not dated. Like Charles Ryder, the painter hero of Brideshead Revisited, Waugh focused "the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifty Years of Total Waugh | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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