Word: attraction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rating is like gold," says a Wells Fargo Bank vice president. A restaurant that accepts no checks or credit cards can be an ideal laundering machine. Even a front business with no exemption is valuable because launderers can file the CTRs in the knowledge that they are unlikely to attract scrutiny, since the Government is swamped with 7 million such reports a year, up from fewer than 100,000 a decade ago. Other places where drug dealers can often dump their cash include the currency exchange houses along the Southwest border and urban check- cashing and money-transmittal stores...
...summer clerks and myself. Last fall we also spoke to a large number of Harvard students. But programs like this one, with little or no funds for publicity, doing vital legal aid work in parts of the country of which many people have never heard, cannot hope to attract a large number of applicants from schools like Harvard unless the schools help make our existence known to interested students...
...lofty ceilings and broad aisles. B. Altman, with its 124-year-old reputation for quality and gentility, is going out of business. Six of Altman's seven stores, situated mostly in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, will be shuttered next month because its current owners were unable to attract any suitable bids during its six weeks on the block. Though the chain was long past its glory years, it finally expired at the hands of George Herscu, an overleveraged Australian corporate raider whose L.J. Hooker Corp. bought B. Altman...
...conclude, I must ask why Ehrenreich and others "firmly believe that there are times when PBHA has to take stands." By getting as many people as possible involved in the community, PBHA is making the most powerful statement it can possibly make. Why should this organization attract attention for their potentially divisive and alienating political beliefs when they have so many valuable gifts to offer? David Rettig...
Tilson said Teach for America intends to attract the best college students in the country to train and eventually to teach in inner-city and rural public schools...