Word: attraction
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There may be more brainpower per square foot in Massachusetts than in any other state. Within 200 miles of Boston, the Athens of America, are some 250 colleges. Half of the state's 2,000 yearly Ph.D.s remain there. Harvard and M.I.T. are intellectual nation-states that attract and breed talent. An informal estimate of the number of companies started by M.I.T. graduates easily reaches 1,000. Today, M.I.T.'s artificial intelligence laboratory is considered the prime incubator for this new technology, which economists estimate will become a billion-dollar industry by the end of the decade. "The selling...
Unless this is done, the task force maintains, the mass of U.S. public schools may fail to meet the needs not only of average pupils but of the more than 20% of students, mainly minorities, now living below the poverty level and attending schools that typically cannot attract top teachers. "America must now provide to the many the same quality of education presently reserved for the fortunate few," says the report, written principally by Carnegie's executive director Marc Tucker. "Only the teachers can finally accomplish (that) agenda . . . The cost of not doing so will be a steady erosion...
Reaction to the report was strong and mixed. Theodore Sizer, chairman of the department of education at Brown University, praised the study's objective to "attract the best teachers and then make it possible to keep them within the system." U.S. Secretary of Education William Bennett favored higher certification standards, liberal arts training and top pay for top people. But he noted, "There is a missing person in the report, and that is the school principal. You cannot run a school by committee...
...West Coast, a perennial favorite for vacationers, should attract more than the usual mob this season. Many families who are planning their vacations around Expo 86, the world's fair in Vancouver, B.C., will head down to the Pacific Northwest and California coasts. As a result, Seattle expects record crowds this summer. The city's Gray Line Tours reports that bookings on some of its trips are already up sixfold...
...enlist enough strong independent stations to become a full-scale competitor, industry observers are impressed so far. The signing of Rivers "reveals a couple of things," says Edward * Atorino, a media analyst for Smith Barney. "One, Mr. Murdoch is very serious. Two, he's got some resources to attract talent...