Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand up for civil rights. Republican Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole has a civil rights record so solid that it won praise from Coretta Scott King. But when Reagan and the Moral Majority lobbied against the Civil Rights Restoration Act, Dole fled to Wisconsin in a futile attempt to attract voters and dodge the issue...
...clear that certain sports don't have what it takes to attract spectators. Whatever vital quality it is that they lack, it tends to be gender-blind. No matter how many Eastern titles the men's swimming team wins, the squad's season crowd total probably wouldn't fill Bright Center...
...Republicans have made it even easier for the Democrats to attract evangelicals in this election. Dukakis can capitalize on the sleaze factor. Evangelicals would welcome a President promising to bring ethics back to Washington. "St. Dukakis," as his wife so fondly calls him, seems a lot cleaner than the Republican candidate, who is rumored to have had a long-term affair and has dealt with drug-dealing dictators...
None of that has hampered Stanford's ability to attract a disproportionate share of the nation's top students. Of the 15,826 high school seniors who applied for admission to next fall's freshman class, only 2,521 were accepted. Of those accepted, Stanford expects 1,600 to come to Palo Alto, giving Stanford a 63% yield, second only to Harvard's 70% among major colleges and universities. Increasingly, top students are choosing Stanford over the Ivies. Noel Maurer, 18, a senior at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, who has SAT scores...
...livable pace and casual life-style and its nearness to sea and mountains. In exchange, they seem willing to endure weather reports that read, "Rain, followed by showers" (a prediction for six days in a row in March). But perhaps it is the cloudy skies that in the end attract visitors to the great indoors of Seattle's innovative restaurants. After all, if you can't walk around the waterfront or ferry to the outlying islands, you might as well...