Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brooklyn-born Krasner was the better credentialed of the two and helped move Pollock toward the avantgarde. She continued to paint in a mutually respectful, noncompetitive partnership with him during the years of poverty and productivity on their farm in East Hampton, N.Y. Krasner finally saw her work attract recognition and respect in a celebrated 1983 retrospective that is still making the rounds of U.S. museums...
...Education is a community venture, and not just educators and parents should be involved," said Peterkin, who, as headmaster of English High School in 1974, encouraged local business and university partnerships with the school in order to attract students there during early Federal court-ordered desegregation...
...most local of the Square's bars is Whitney's Cafe (37 JFK St.), next to Urban Outfitters. The drinks are cheap and the beer standard fare as at any other bar in the country, no surprises here. The owner says he wants to attract student business but for some reason almost no one in the Yard has ever heard of it. But if you do go in to watch a ball game on the tube you will not feel unwelcome...
...skin with a needle causes excruciating pain. These substances sensitize the nerve endings and help transmit the pain message from the injured region toward the brain. Prostaglandins also increase circulation to the damaged area, causing the swelling and redness known as inflammation. The purpose of this is to attract infection-fighting blood cells that will ward off any invading bacteria. Since the days of Hippocrates, doctors have been relieving pain with salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin that was derived from willow bark, but only in the past 15 years have they understood that it works by inhibiting the production...
Afterwards, he will almost certainly make use of the contacts and the troupe he has developed in that time in professional theater. In fact, one of the skills almost every observer notes of Warner is his consistent ability to attract good people to work with him. Not wholly unrelated is an uncanny knack for making connections and attracting backers: when he isn't directing, he is caught up in a constant round of breakfast, lunch and dinner meetings with possible contacts, handling much of his own fundraising and publicity management...