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Word: attractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system protects incumbents, who can grant the favors to attract the donors. It handicaps the candidate, however able, who lacks the connections or the Character to curry cash. More basically, it undermines the premise that all individuals, regardless of wealth, are equal under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Disgrace of Campaign Financing | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...Nixon Administration is marshaling all its great resources to re-elect the President, and not the least of those resources is the ability to attract campaign donations. There is scarcely a business, union, profession or special-interest group whose well-being cannot be affected by Washington or whose leaders would not like influence there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Disgrace of Campaign Financing | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...still possible to save the day if we set up a research institute which can attract top scholars," Patterson said. "I think the Institute should be set up the way all other research institutes are not up--on a University-wide basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orlando Patterson Calls DuBois Plan 'Absolute Disaster' | 10/21/1972 | See Source »

...certainly is true that Stanislav Andreski's grandmother knew many things that social scientists are now "discovering." I, however, would like Andreski to analyze more of the social science principles his grandmother "knew." For example, my grandparents "knew" that "opposites attract" and that "birds of a feather flock together." In addition, they "knew" that "out of sight, out of mind" and that "absence makes the heart grow fonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1972 | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...ORGAN INAGURAL concert, by its very infrequence, is bound to attract attention. All the more so in the case of the most recent dedication in Cambridge the First Church`s new instrument marks the first appearacne in this country of an organ designed by the firm of Theodor Frobenius & Sons of Copenhagen...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Baroque Organ Dedication | 10/11/1972 | See Source »

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