Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strict guidelines banning the location of plants that produce such hazardous substances as gases, poisons and explosives in areas where population growth is expected. But whether the ruling was supposed to govern facilities already constructed remained uncertain. More fundamentally, the safety restrictions ran counter to local governments' desire to attract industry. So far, not a single company has been denied permission to build. When the issue of the Union Carbide plant's permit arose in the Madhya Pradesh state assembly in December 1982, then Labor Minister Tarasingh Viyogi took pains to remind his listeners that the plant had cost...
...freeze-plus budget works its way through Washington's legislative maw, that comment will come to sound positively low key. The proposed clampdown on spending could attract an even broader coalition of lobbyists united in opposition than did the tax-reform plan. Moreover, for all the clamor in Congress to cut the deficit, many of the remedies advanced by Reagan would squeeze voter-sensitive programs like Medicare hard enough to make most elected officials wince. Admits a White House adviser: "If you pluck out the individual elements, you find some of them very difficult to sell in political terms...
HARVARD OFFICIALS: 'Our objective is to attract and retain faculty members. This is not a gimmick to raise Harvard rents...
...objective is to attract and retain faculty members and when they are making their decisions they ask. Can I buy a house here and how much would it be?" Kossan explains. Last month for instance Cornell German literature specialist Sander Gilman turned down a Harvard tenure after partially because of the Cambridge housing situation...
...predicted that the Republican Party would take steps to attract Black voters in the next election...