Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Observers describe Assad's policies with the vague term "flexibility." Internally, he has relaxed currency controls and travel restrictions and seeks to attract Western investment. Externally, he appears almost deliberately to be intimidating Iraq, perhaps as a means of discouraging Baghdad from any idea of moving against his territory...
...columnist in the Buenos Aires daily La Opinión observed: "The extreme positions and the truculent folklore of the far left serve more to attract young people who are out to frighten their aunts than to win big popular majorities." The losers saw it differently and charged the government with vote buying. José López Rega, Mrs. Perón's private secretary and Social Welfare Minister, did visit the province shortly before the election to distribute nearly $5 million worth of housing subsidies...
Lafayette Place's buildings will be in scale with surrounding architecture and will rise above the retail floors to provide space for offices and a hotel. These should help attract people and keep the center bustling. Last week, even as the ambitious scheme was announced, it began moving toward reality. Wrecking crews started to demolish the first old building on the site of Lafayette Place...
...devote more attention to graduate students than to undergraduates, feeling them to have demonstrated more devotion to their specific academic pursuits, so they devote more time to upperclassmen in advanced research than to freshmen in introductory lectures. Similarly, it is the committed upperclass concentrators and graduate student tutors who attract professors to the Houses for courses, special interest tables, and the like...
...trouble began when fast-food chains, designed specifically to appeal to suburban and highway trade, started to move into established middle-class urban neighborhoods on the fringes of commercial districts. The strategy made good business sense; the places would attract the lunchtime crowd from the nearby offices and stores, and could draw on the residential area for evening customers. But in these locations, the basic formula of fast-food chains-flamboyant stores plus a heavy volume of take-out orders and quick turnover of customers-often is also the formula for trouble. Streets for blocks around become littered with emblemed...