Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stakeout" had begun at 11;00 on Thursday morning, the third day of maneuvering in the Senate over HR 2, an untidy, bloated package of $87.9 billion in transportation funds, with an increase in the speed limit tacked on to attract Western legislators' support. Rhetoric aside, nobody cared what was in the bill by now, and few had even read its entire convoluted text...
...figure our businesses are kind of similar," Collins is rumored to have said. "We both attract large masses of people, take their money away, and still somehow leave them desiring to return. Besides, it's a tax write...
...admitted underdog, Fox is trying hard to attract attention. The two shows being introduced on Sunday, for example, will each be repeated twice during the evening, to encourage as many viewers as possible to sample them. And Fox is shrewdly starting up near the end of the networks' season; thus it will have new episodes for much of the summer while the competition is offering mostly reruns...
Besides being ethnocentric, Southern whites also form the most moderate portion of potential Democratic voters. To attract these voters Democrats have to adopt a middle-of-the-road image. In theory, Dukakis--with his pro-economic growth reputation--could pull this off. In reality, the Duke simply will be perceived in the South as an extreme liberal...
...main draw, Andrew Calhoun, is a Chicago-based musician with three fine albums on the Flying Fish label who has yet to attract a cult following in Cambridge--which probably accounts for the unexpectedly low turnout of about...