Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long, drawn-out, uselessly elaborate primary season. Beginning with the lowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, and running six months to the party conventions, the process seems designed to boost T.V. ratings, and nothing else. The prolonged excitement does not expose issues particularly well. It does not attract people to the polls, and it does violate the principle of one-man-one-vote...
...routes in 1983. The competition is brutal; the railroads have moved in to grab back a full 10 percent of the transportation market, and about 300,000 truck-driving Teamsters have lost jobs since 1979. Operators have slashed rates feverishly and often foolishly to attract business. And no doubt they are illegally overloading their rigs to recoup their losses...
...high average age is a direct result of Pihl's shift to a greater number of night-classes. Pihl said that the night courses, which have been increasing in popularity since he started the program in 1979 attract many adults from the Boston area...
Despite all the blandishments, some prominent software firms chose to ignore the show, while others complained that it failed to attract enough computer dealers. But even before last week's exhibits were packed up, Jonathan Rotenberg, 20, the founder of the Boston Computer Society and co-organizer of the show, was already working up plans for next year. He hopes to have another software extravaganza in New Orleans plus one in Los Angeles. His confident prediction: "We will be mobbed." -By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Michael Moritz/New Orleans
...necessary to redo the building to attract the best type of people," said Robert M Woollacott, chairman...