Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is a difference between impressing a woman and inspiring her genuine affection. Any man who relies on his resume to attract and hold a woman deserves whomever he gets. Institutions like Harvard abound with individuals who are capable of analyzing government and literature, or diagnosing the ills of an entire marketplace. While being unable to read the underlying emotions of the person with whom they ear, sleep, and talk on a regular basis. A man afflicted with an intellect which comes to life only for academic or professional audiences, while personal subtleties glide past, is telling women that...
...middle of the term, comes down with mono and skips numerous classes without having to drop out of school. King and her application to Harvard would have thrilled the admissions office no end. After all, she is the type of student the office is desperately trying to attract--she's from a small Midwestern city, editor of her school newspaper, a good student, and willing to give up a good scholarship to her state university to venture east to Harvard...
...admissions office has increased the number of students it sends out into the field to recruit, rewritten many of its brochures, and contacted minority alumni and 10,000 high school guidance counselors around the country to enlist support. All this new propaganda and increased communications effort is designed to attract students who wouldn't normally consider applying to Harvard because of misconceptions about the College--usually confusion about the availability of financial aid or feelings that they wouldn't fit or even...
...council members stressed that the nature of the council-which they said tends to attract students who have previously been active in other organization-makes for frequent overlap, which is not necessarily harmful...
Hollings also called for federally subsidized teachers salaries to attract better teachers and improve education which he said was crucial to business productivity...