Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the pressure of a federal court desegregation order, the Kansas City school district this month opened six foreign-language magnet schools. To attract white students into predominantly black areas, the district intended to offer intensive elementary school classes in French, Spanish and German. But the plan hit a snag when the Immigration and Naturalization Service refused to approve visas for the 14 Belgian instructors hired to teach French...
Admission officials said that GSAS is moving to attract even more minorities through the creation of a GSAS Director of Admissions post...
Associate Dean for Admissions Patricia McWade said she expects Blackman will further energize the Admissions office's effort to attract minorities to Harvard's graduate programs...
...twelve-day U.S.S.R. pilgrimage produced no formal actions but was remarkable for having occurred at all. In overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey, the government wants the Patriarch's small church of ethnic Greeks to attract as little attention as possible, and Dimitrios has heretofore shown no urge to travel. Given the long rivalry between the Patriarchs of Moscow and Constantinople, his friendly reception and lengthy talks with Russia's Pimen strengthened Orthodox unity, as well as Dimitrios' influence as "first among equals" in the Orthodox hierarchy. In coming months the Patriarch will visit the churches of five other nations, then meet...
...says that the CCA has never made the effort to get to know less well-off Cambridge citizens as the independents have. He notes that he has never attended a wake from which Mayor Sullivan was absent. His candidacy is an effort to attract blue collar voters with liberal views away from the conservative independents who have survived on their support...