Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Farman-Farma said his uncle died in a polo accident but he remains enthusiastic about the sport. Poor said, "The danger attract people rather than scares them away...
...victim is far more likely to get hurt when attempting to subdue the aggressor, particularly one with a knife or gun. The kind of resistance that has the best chance of success, explains Richard Block, a sociologist at Loyola University of Chicago, who conducted the study, is to attract the attention of possible rescuers or to try to flee. Block predicts that if too many citizens take up arms, criminals will respond by adding to their own weaponry or by selecting more vulnerable victims, such as defenseless older women...
...April 15 fast approaches, financial institutions are vying to attract customers for tax-deferred Individual Retirement Accounts. San Francisco's Continental Savings of America (assets: $346 million) last week began offering an IRA with a difference. The S and L is giving women depositors an 11.5% interest rate on new IRAs, but only 11% to men. At the higher rate, a female saver will earn nearly $47,000 more than a male if both contribute the annual individual maximum of $2,000 for 30 years. Says Susan Loughridge, a Continental senior vice president: "It's our theory that women entered...
...Cicily Isabel Fairfield to Rebecca West, after one of Ibsen's strong-minded heroines, and then spent much of her life in the public spotlight. In 1912 she began a tumultuous ten- year affair with H.G. Wells and in 1914 bore him a son; meanwhile, her writing began to attract attention. She produced fiction, biography, history, criticism and a steady supply of journalism. She espoused feminism in its early wave and patriotism during the period after World War II when her native England reeled with self-doubt. Although she died in 1983, at age 90, Dame Rebecca remains in prominent...
...asked each department chair to tell how he could best use the resources of his office to attract the best junior faculty and to develop them when they are here," White added...