Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than four times the 3% to 5% share of voters the pollsters normally consign to him. Moreover, in both states McGovern was able to score significantly by running his kind of campaign-pushing issues, not personalities, and relying on a carefully worked-out series of proposals, not rhetoric, to attract voters...
...part of a $45,000 campaign to attract new industry to the Fond du Lac area, about 65 miles north of Milwaukee. But there was an immediate protest that the ad was actually a volley of crew-cut propaganda. It did seem to play on any good burgher's fear of the standard counterculture sins: drugs and VD, the death of the work ethic, draft dodging, and maybe some glint of Charles Manson...
McGovern is considered by many to be too liberal to get the nomination, and Monday's address appeared to be his first attempt to attract the average American fed up with taxes. He also made a pitch to the growing group of voters angry about busing when he told a WHDH-TV reporter later that his tax proposals would make busing unnecessary because schools would theoretically become equal...
...with all his banks, Parsons invested B.O.C.'s funds heavily in low-grade 20-year municipal securities. Though they then paid high yields and bolstered bank earnings, they were far tougher to sell than the lower-paying short-term Treasury notes that most banks buy. To attract more money, B.O.C. made what other bankers considered risky loans to oil prospectors, restaurants and black self-help groups. Still, during the first five years of Parsons' management, B.O.C. assets tripled to $1.5 billion and its earnings quintupled to $11 million...
Treff began to attract suspicion after he tried to buy 300 shares of Natomas; the stock exchange had been rather routinely investigating reports of other phony orders in the mercurial stock, and stumbled on to Treff's trading. After an SEC investigator called Treff two weeks ago, he went to Manhattan and gave the exchange a report of his shenanigans. "I was trying to show that the brokerage firms weren't going according to the rules," he explained...