Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entirely with saccharin, made its debut a year ago and has since become the fourth-bestselling soft drink in the U.S. Some Coke lovers claim the drink has an aftertaste, but Brian G. Dyson, president of Coca-Cola USA, said the new diet Coke will deliver better flavor and attract male consumers, who are "less likely to make taste sacrifices for dieting...
Concerns about appearance and manner may have a place in a medium that uses personalities to attract viewers to the news. But TV executives around the country said that in Craft's case, the show business considerations were insensitively handled and tinged with sexism. Said General Manager Monte Newman of Chicago's WMAQ: "The people in charge were incredibly dumb." When Craft negotiated with KMBC for the $35,000 job in 1980, she told the station's management that she had resented being "made over" as a bee-stung-lipped, bleached blond for a previous post...
...that at Breakers games there is "more of a college atmosphere" and "a younger crowd." Not surprisingly, then, the USFL has found its greatest support in areas where college football is strong and the NFL relatively weak, such as the South and the Midwest. The NFL may continue to attract many of the superstars from larger and more visible college football programs, but the USFL will attract many who simply enjoy playing football and do it well. Further, the USFL, can ill afford the "glamor" of a pro football associated on occasion with gambling and drugs...
...first area to attract a number of researchers was the newborn baby's senses, which were once thought to represent little more than hunger to be fed. Systematic testing soon showed that babies not only perceive a good deal but have distinct preferences in everything. An Israeli neurophysiologist, Jacob Steiner, found that a baby as young as twelve hours old, which has never tasted even its mother's milk, will gurgle with satisfaction when a drop of sugar-water is placed on its tongue and grimace at a drop of lemon juice. More
...conference is expected to attract wide spread national attention, and will be taped and edited for a major documentary that ABC New plans to broadcast sometime next year, organizers said...