Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with ten undeveloped suburban locations. Though each pair of sites would be geographically separate, from 20 to 40 miles apart, they would exist as political, social and economic entities. The pairs would be connected by mass transit lines and bus services; housing would be built in both places to attract various income levels...
...over the majority of import buyers. A stripped-down, two-door Vega, for example, sells for $2,091 (including federal excise tax and dealer preparation charges) and a Pinto for $1,944, v. $1,899 for the basic Volkswagen. The subcompacts, though, are small and cheap enough to attract many motorists who might buy bigger U.S.-made cars if they felt more flush, but whose desire for economy has been sharpened by the bite of the 1970 recession and continuing inflation. A G.M. poll of early Vega buyers disclosed that 30% would have turned to a larger and more expensive...
...were not silent; but the sounds of empty words at teach-ins frighten him no more than do the thud and tinkle of shattered shopfront windows. Action alone impresses him-Eactionalized and paranoid, the Left has been unable to coordinate meaningful action. Marches and teach-ins and trashing readily attract participants; but they are not very meaningful. Only political organizing, performed diligently and persistently by an army of college students working in local communities, supported by a barrage of information dispensed through local media, can break through the glossy shell of Vietnamization and let the muck ooze...
...addition, observers suggested two other reasons for the visit: to attract skilled Greek nationals in the U. S. to migrate back to Greece and fill positions that the regime itself has emptied, and to intimidate other Greek nationals who would otherwise be more vocally opposed to the junta if they did not have family or friends in Greece...
...impressed with his diligence that they sent him to the mining hamlet of Kemmerer to open a new shop-called The Golden Rule Store. In tiny Kemmerer, almost everybody bought on credit-and paid high prices. Penney, then 26, tried another formula: cash, but with a slender markup to attract big volume. He attributed his chain's success to that policy, and to the profit-sharing plan that he started in 1907, which he said made his employees "associates." With annual sales of $4.1 billion, J.C. Penney today ranks as the nation's fifth merchandising company. Penney...