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Word: attraction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...politics can become only so boring before it ceases to exist at all. Last week Los Angeles held an election and almost no one came -- only 23% of the voters turned out. Bradley does not need charisma to attract money; the bankers and developers in Los Angeles have wallets as fat as Michael J. Fox's. But politicians do need to inspire people, or at least keep them awake, if they are to lead as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make Boring Beautiful | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

When businesses find the skills of Massachusetts people sub-par, the state's economy is clearly in trouble. With little natural resources, the Bay State has long relied on the quality of its citizens, especially in the university laden Boston area to attract commerce...

Author: By Steven J.S. Glick, | Title: Staking the Claim for Education | 4/22/1989 | See Source »

...Filipino guerrillas massacred a company of American soldiers, slicing open the corpses and filling them with molasses and jam to attract ants. In retaliation, one U.S. general ordered his men to turn the island of Samar into "a howling wilderness." Samar has never recovered. Forty-one years later, Filipinos were risking savage Japanese reprisals to feed American prisoners of war marching in the notorious Bataan Death March. At war's end, Filipinos hailed the Yanks with a band playing God Bless America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Children of A Lesser God | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...time-honored spring rituals take place at the fences. The wives and children of players often come out to games in Florida. Babies are dandled at the chain link, to be smooched by unshaven dads wearing polyester knickers and adorned with smears of soot under their eyes. Unmarried rookies attract wilder rail birds. Young women wearing shrink-wrapped slacks call hello to bullpen inmates; dates are made and possibly kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Spring's Old Sweet Song | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...noble as these activities are, they do not make present gender inequities at Harvard any more bearable. Will 1000 students attend the Take Back the Night rally next week? Probably not, even though the rally should theoretically attract additional students who oppose abortion...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Changing the Non-Harvard World | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

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