Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rousing speaker than Flynn. To win he would need to sweep the black vote again and pick up at least 30% of the city's white vote, which is 12% more than Harold Washington took when he won the mayoral race in Chicago. Flynn, meanwhile, is expected to attract the bulk of Finnegan's votes as well as maintain his overwhelming support among fellow working-class Irish Americans in neighborhoods like his South Boston home district...
Hollis questioned statements that the low percentage of minority and women in high level positions resulted from an inadequate applicant pool. "This is an institution that is based on the assumption that it can attract people who are in scarce numbers in society...
...complaints from students were fiscally oriented." Dingman said, explaining. "They complained that they couldn't attract the same crowd and that their parties were winners or losers because of this difference...
...stock incentives to the real workers and rewarding talent without prejudice. He turned over the charge of one agency to a man 72 years old; they prospered. "The two major companies I competed against didn't promote women the way I did," he says, "so I was able to attract talented women...
...merit pay, but it is a travesty to suggest any instructor merits some of the wages currently doled out in schools. For many years, the brightest women and minorities entered teaching as one of the few doors open to them. As the doors now multiply, society must work to attract quality teachers. Higher pay is one step toward answering the problem of recruiting teachers--respect from an involved community provides yet another advance...