Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attacking the present Democratic administration for "ignorance, incompetence, and irresponsibility," Herter urged a Republican victory to "stamp out the political bosses," and "attract industry to the Commonwealth...
...dollars on original study each year, Pauling predicted that it is inevitable that world problems be attacked through research. He advocated a peace research organization under the auspices of the United Nations to take the place of war and power politics in settling international problems. Such an agency would attract some of the best men from all over the world. It would work on such problems as the Chinese off-shore islands, the Arab refugees in Lebanon, and the chance of an accidental nuclear...
...deviant for sake of deviation, nor the person who likes to be different, solely to attract attention...
...lobbies, whose sponsors would lose their bread and butter. Also more and more citizens are seeing a greater danger in postponing education, much less setting it back to the Eighteenth Century, than in sending their children to school with negroes. Their position is shared by most moderates. It will attract some who are tempted to provoke the show-down, but fear it would result in decisive restriction rather than reaffirmation of the independent spheres of life...
Planners have long known that a far better answer to downtown blight is to attract higher-income families back to town. Many cities have pondered how to do this, and some have tried. In one of the best efforts so far, Detroit last week opened the first unit of Lafayette Plaisance University City, an all privately financed and operated $30 million development of 1,029 rental and 938 cooperative apartments in a onetime slum area. When completed. University City, only half a mile from the heart of downtown Detroit, will occupy a 55-acre park with six 22-story glass...