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Word: attractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devote 150 hours to events in Moscow. In 1984 ABC plans to raise the total to 200 hours. It will also have a tune advantage in Los Angeles that NBC will not have in Moscow: the West Coast is three hours behind the East, so daylight events will attract viewers in the East during prime-time hours. By that time, viewers may have ODed on athletics and turned to reruns of Laverne and Shirley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Big Game | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

...obsessive extreme. The author constructs his tale around an apposite metaphor, catastrophic fire. Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod sets some newspapers alight on the porch of his beloved Jade's house after her parents have forbidden him to see her for 30 days. He wishes to attract attention and instead nearly incinerates Jade, her brothers and parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Torch Song | 10/8/1979 | See Source »

Thomas M. Reardon, director of development, says the Core may help attract alumni contributors. "It's of fairly high interest in terms of conversation," he says. But since most of the campaign's advance donations come from loyal contributors who don't specify where they want their gifts spent, it's hard to tell how many dollars the Core will attract, he adds...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: $20 Million Will 'Reshape' Education | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

...Boston, 1000 protesters outside Holy Cross Cathedral chanted "stop racism now" and held up placards to attract the Pope's attention. The racially-mixed demonstrators were protesting the shooting of a high school football player last week in Charlestown. The Secret Service rerouted the Pontiff to avoid the protesters...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Veni, Vidi, Vici | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

After another year doing basketball on WHRB, Scheper might give a broadcasting career a try, but he's not making any committments. Another possibility is Law school. To the suprise of no one, one school seems to attract Scheper more than any other: Notre Dame...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Dave Scheper: The Center of Attraction | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

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