Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will face yet another challenge. The school, which has the smallest endowment in the Ivy League, also has a reputation for offering an education without requirements and for being popular while providing little structure. Educators and colleagues say Gregorian will have to increase the endowment in order to attract the kind of faculty and students the school needs to improve its image...
...twelve failing Texas institutions, including Richardson Savings (assets: $707.8 million) and Mercury Savings ($332.9 million). The S and Ls will be merged and turned over to an investment group led by William Gibson, an executive vice president at Chicago's Continental Illinois bank, for a token $48 million. To attract the investors and revive the S and Ls, the Bank Board agreed to provide financial aid that may run as high as $1.3 billion over the next decade...
...vice president also thinks that his promise to appoint a Hispanic to his cabinet will attract Hispanic voters. But it's a question of dessert before the dinner. Bush must still address why Hispanics still suffer from poverty and unemployment in a nation that according to President Reagan, prospers from low unemployment and lower interest rates...
BUSH certainly doesn't come from a background to which Hispanics can relate. But all of a sudden, Bush sees the need to attract the Hispanic voter. He can't do it on his background. He probably can't do it on the past eight years of the Reagan Administration. So he turns to Jeb and his wife and the kids...
Bush will need more than Jeb and his wife and kids to attract the Hispanic vote. He will have to prove to the Hispanic community that he will help improve its overall situation in American society. But if he continues to be as awkward as he was in describing his own grandchildren, the nation's Hispanics will keep talking in Spanish while George stumbles along in English...