Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increase hitting, which would liven the game, attract more fans and produce more profit, Finley also wants to see batters walked on three balls instead of four. "Just think about the disadvantage the batter has," he says. "In football, there are eleven guys playing eleven guys, in basketball five against five. Not in baseball. We've got nine fielders out there against one batter. We've got to give the batter help...
Lownes is also changing PEI in other ways. Convinced that the company is overcommitted to running all its varied businesses itself, he plans to go for more licensing and franchising deals. He is also loosening the company's grip on clubs and hotels. To boost occupancy and attract more convention business from conservative companies, he has removed the Playboy name from the Chicago and Great Gorge, N.J., hotels and opened all the four hotels to non-key holders. In the 18 clubs operated by PEI, he has encouraged individual managers to set their own motifs and has reduced...
Since then, the office has been experimenting with different programs aimed at different kinds of alumni. One of the problems with the alumni college is that it tends to draw the older, wealthier alumni, and the office is working now at finding ways to attract a broader group. "We mainly get middle-aged to older alumni, between the classes of '40 and '50." Anway says, although they get alumni from both extremes as well some come with their babies, she says, and Helen J. Almy '05 says she plans to attend this week's session on Soviet Russia "unless...
...said "If the two midnight hours are important to students then it is worth the extra cost since especially now when tuition is so high we need to attract not discourage, summer students...
Because of the looming natural-gas crisis, the Senate debate may attract even more attention and acrimony than the House discussions on oil. The Senate bill seeks to stimulate natural gas production through selected changes in Government controls. Since 1960, the Federal Power Commission has regulated the price of gas flowing across state lines. As demand surged in the early 1970s, partly as a result of environmental legislation favoring clean-burning gas, the FPC held the price at an artificially low level. Even now, it is fixed at only 510 per thousand cu. ft., equivalent to a mere...