Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Solomon--director of executive operations at Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), one of the organizers of the rally--said organizers should try to attract as many supporters as possible. "If we get the numbers we hope, it will be a dramatic expression of the will of an important segment of the population," he said...
Alas, another irony: while gentrifiers as they first venture into an old neighborhood may be democratically inspired -- The diversity! The grit! -- they attract mobs of merely stylish followers who diminish the diversity and sweep away every last speck of grit. The old-line residents and the anchors of their communities -- the hardware stores, the cobblers, the taverns -- are driven out by suddenly high rents. Gentrification is not fun for everyone. Walter Reinhaus, a white graduate student, is renovating a Charles Addamsesque mansion in the middle of an all-black Chicago neighborhood. "With gentrification," he says, "it's easy...
...committees' 26 members, much that was political got into the report. "Some House Democrats tried to put everything in the worst possible light." He told them, "You can make a point without pulverizing it." After dozens of drafts and revisions, a compromise was reached that was able to attract the three Republican Senators...
Quirk cited several possible steps to attract more women. The elimination of all single sex dorms next year at the college, he said, will create a more attractive atmosphere for potential women students, he said...
...much based on a concept, except it sort of acquired a Flinstonian theme," said Adams House Tutor Doug Fitch, who helped decorate. "We wanted to attract attention to the colors on the ground, the colors of the light...