Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bohemianism did not attract him. He went to Paris in the late 1920s and found it "invaded by such a swarm of artists, writers, students, dilettanti, sightseers, debauchees and plain idlers as the world has probably never seen. In some quarters of the town the so-called artists must actually have outnumbered the working population . . ." He took a job as a dishwasher in a Paris hotel, a member of the working population 13 hours...
...that point, members of the local Chamber of Commerce and two industrial development groups, who usually spend their time trying to attract new industries, realized they were about to lose an established one. They donated $75,000 and persuaded the university's business and engineering schools to turn the factory into a living laboratory. The university agreed in January, promising to pay for the cost of using the factory by finding $500,000 in annual savings or making up the difference in cash...
...hecklers are criticized for shouting at Weinberger without any mention of a key fact: Weinberger can and does express himself daily, while theme who opposive his use of their fax dollars must go to unusual lenghts to attract any attention at all from the news media. Moreover, it should be recognized that some people refuse on ethical grounds to allow as objections. Ble an official as Casper Weinberger in come and go without somehow making their opposition knows, Weinberger as used our tax dollars to invade another country, to divert the nation's wealth from human needs to every manner...
Just how well the newly independent parts fare is critical to the question of how much phone bills will rise after the split. If the regionals make money, attract investors, improve efficiency and keep costs down, phone bills stand a better chance of staying reasonable. If they do not, pressure to collect money from phone users for lost revenues will increase...
...most masterful post-War practitioners of the genre. These 800 pages contain a formidable array of stories--stories which delve into the comic and tragic interiors of ordinary lives, revealing an extraordinary subtlety of observation and perception. No peripheral backwater of society no commonplace experience is too mundane to attract the sympathetic interest of this writer. Just as bleak, hollow cocoons of loneliness make up much of Philip Larkin's poetry, is unglamorous, unremarkable lives which are the raw materials of Trevor's prose. But far from being dull, these are absorbing, seamless evocations of character and life style...