Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embraces those who advocate and practice arson, fire bombing and destruction of property; also skyjackers, prison rioters and people who threaten public officials or distribute publications urging revolution. The nonviolent category includes those who burn their draft cards, participate in May Day demonstrations, "organize and attend rock festivals which attract youth and narcotics," travel to Cuba, Algeria and North Viet Nam, or "aid in funding the sale of firearms to the Irish Republican Army and Arab terrorists." Writes Flynn: "There is evidence from classified documents that transfers of large amounts of money to and from the U.S.A. are being used...
...that could go higher still. First National City in New York, for example, came out with a plan under which $1,000 deposited for four years will earn interest each quarter at a rate of a half-point below what the bank had to pay the previous quarter to attract $100,000 CDs. The rate this quarter is 8.11%; it can go either up or down from there, but never below the 5% passbook rate. Philadelphia's First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Co. offers an "inflation-proof" $1,000 CD that will pay 7½% to 10% interest, with...
...units arrive in a town in large, brightly painted vans and set up their show with the efficiency of oldtime carnival hands. Recorded rock music pounds through the fairground to attract crowds, and balloons emblazoned HEALTH IS HAPPINESS are given away to children...
Mary Alice Relf, now twelve, is mentally retarded, has a speech defect, and was born without a right hand. She has a sister named Minnie, 14, and as they grew old enough to attract boys, welfare workers steered them to a federally financed family planning center in Montgomery, Ala., where they received injections every three months of a drug called Depo-Provera, which was being tested as a contraceptive...
...ROSE IN BLOOM, Alcott describes the societal pressures on a woman to be ornamental. Rose, an orphaned young heiress, is pressured by her aunts to join society and to use her wealth to attract suitors. Instead, with the aid of a sensible uncle, she learns to manage her money wisely and to devote herself to philanthropic affairs -- not by conducting bazaars or charity balls, but by constructing and maintaining low-income housing in the poorer sections of town. She marries in the end, of course, but she marries the professor who respects her, not the handsome dandy who admires...