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Word: attraction (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Associate Director Marshall I. Goldman said the new donations will allow the research center to attract better scholars to study at Harvard, usually for a year, and to invite special guest lecturers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Center Gets $1 Million | 2/25/1988 | See Source »

...supports Pat Robertson because he's very conservative and will make sure the GOP platform stays that way. Bush and Dole pledge to broaden the base of the Republican party. But mom fears they'll compromise Republican principles in an effort to attract moderates. Robertson is broadening the base of the party, too--but he is signing up thousands of evangelicals and born-again Christians, a move mom supports. He is also wooing thousands of conservative Southern voters, who are switching party affiliation so they can vote in the GOP primaries...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: Mom's Leap of Faith to Pat Robertson | 2/23/1988 | See Source »

...Pont, whose provocative ideas about fundamental change in Social Security and abolition of farm subsidies failed to attract much voter support, announced his withdrawal in a news conference in Wilmington, Delaware. The heir to the chemical-company fortune finished fifth in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Du Pont, Babbitt Leave Campaign; Both Decline to Endorse Rivals | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...analyst in California's Silicon Valley, divorced from Debi's father since 1974. "A coach once advised Mom to rent a fur coat just for the nationals, but I did all right that year without the fur coat." Janice Thomas laughs and says, "They tell you it's to attract sponsorship money, as well as to look a certain part when you're away from the arena. I told them, 'Too bad.' I didn't want them changing me either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skater Debi Thomas: The Word She Uses Is Invincible | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...Glass skyboxes to house the teeming multitudes of season-ticket holders who show up at the Council's weekly meetings. The boxes would have kitchens equipped with chocolate milk dispensers to attract more students. If these failed, there is always...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Bureaucratic Excessories | 2/4/1988 | See Source »

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