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Word: attraction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stake in an established, profitable service business in which the workers do everything they can to make customers happy? That proposition is being put forward by a group of Nevada entrepreneurs, led by lawyer Peter Perry and real estate developer Donald Clough, that is trying to attract investors for an unusual buyout. The target: Nevada's Mustang Ranch, the largest legalized brothel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: A Really Hot Stock Tip | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...dissident group hopes to attract IBM's disaffected customers by offering a new system that will be compatible with the old standard but faster and more powerful. However, the Gang of Nine has not yet finished designing its new circuitry, and is not expected to bring any products on the market for at least a year. Says William Lowe, head of the IBM unit that produces its PCs: "All they're showing now is a set of charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaming Up Against Big Blue | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...interim, the paper has managed to attract a sizeable chunk of American readers and even begun to turn a modest profit...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, | Title: Survey Says: Tuneout, USA | 9/24/1988 | See Source »

This is also an issue that will surely attract the American public. An area in which every true-blue patriot is expert...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Choice of a Pop Generation | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

Mpati said ASAS would remain apolitical to better attract large numbers of students...

Author: By Liam T. A. ford | Title: Group to Aid Schools for Black South Africans | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

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