Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund is one of many set up in recent years to attract foreign investors. Like the other offshore funds, the Dreyfus trust does not deal with U.S. citizens. Instead, it solicits funds, primarily in Western Europe, and then invests the money in U.S. and British shares. Though the fund was started in the spring of 1969, just before the stock market tumbled into a deep depression, its assets have increased 43%, to $55 million...
...very pleased about the continuing ability of Harvard to attract the ablest people to is faculty. I am particularly, pleased by the evidence I have received that the people we are drawing to Harvard have great teaching ability. Most are very good, if not outstanding, teachers as well as scholars...
...remain boy wonders in the public eye until the gates of the geriatric home clang shut behind them. This threatens to be the fate of David Hockney. He was still a 25-year-old student at London's Royal College of Art when his work began to attract notice in 1962. In the decade since then he has remained one of the most conspicuous figures in the English art world. The Clairol-bleached thatch, the Yorkshire accent and the owl-like stare through horn-rims the size of old Bentley headlights have become almost as much a part...
...supporters see no harm in being practical, however. Asa S. Knowles, Northeastern's president, calls co-op a "distinctly American philosophy of higher education," and he adds: "We attract the student who is career-oriented and hungry for practical education...
...contends, has grabbed a whole new audience of diehard film buffs that was not watching the talk shows. Still, the film phenomenon must give pause to Carson, who last week moved his show from New York to Los Angeles, hoping, among other things, that he will be able to attract more show business guests on the West Coast. What makes it all the worse is that Carson's competition comes mostly from B-grade flicks...