Word: attraction
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...even illiterate. The Government should provide loans to help school systems revamp their facilities, and federal educational programs like Head Start should be expanded to include all disadvantaged children. Washington should give special grants to universities to subsidize increased salaries for science and engineering professors and scholarships to attract students into those fields. Moreover, the Government needs to launch a ten- year program to refurbish the research labs at the nation's universities. That job would cost an estimated $10 billion...
...other major theater in the theater district offers a slightly different variety of plays. The Charles Playhouse (74 Warrenton Street, 426-6912) tries to attract longer-running shows to its stages. As a result, Nunsense has been playing on its Main Stage for almost a year. The main theater seats 525 people. The other stage, known as Stage II (426-5225) has a seating capacity of 196 and has been showing Shear Madness for an unprecedented nine years. The Charles also houses the Comedy Connection with a seating capacity...
...international students are a remarkable asset for the Kennedy School and the University, and we are delighted that we have been able to attract other new programs such as the Wexner-Israel Fellows program, the CECO-funded program for Spanish officials, the German government program for civil servants and the Middle East Fellows Program for Arab and Israeli health and welfare professionals. These programs assure ongoing funding for the best and most appropriate students and mid-career officials from various countries to come to the Kennedy School; we view that as an ideal situation, and our efforts are in keeping...
According to further polling information released by KRC pollster Gerry Chervinsky, Dukakis is not only failing to attract as many Independent voters as Bush, but he is also finding it difficult to protect his base of support. Among respondents identifying themselves as Democrats, Dukakis maintained a lead of 64 to 24 percent. Republican voters, however, stayed loyal to their nomineee by a much larger margin of 82 to 6 percent. Among independents, Bush maintained a slight edge over the Governor of 38 to 34 percent...
...rural areas not wired for cable TV. Programming includes crop and livestock reports, country-music videos, a polka-music show and a smattering of old western movies. Patrick Gottsch, a former satellite-dish salesman who raised $4 million from investors to start RFD-TV, thinks the channel can attract enough advertising to turn a profit in its first year. Says investor Jim Harker of Omaha: "Nobody else is hitting the agricultural market. We're stepping into a vacuum...