Word: attractions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Capitol Hill, the question of how to attract wise men and women, and how to keep them wise, was also weighing on Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. His pensiveness came as the Senate debated what to pay members and how much outside income to allow. Baker says that Congressmen are becoming "elected bureaucrats" and not the citizen legislators envisioned at the beginning of the Republic. "We think of ourselves as permanent full-time employees of the Federal Government instead of the elected representatives of the people of our districts and states," Baker declared on the Senate floor. The Congress...
...Alliance's last-ditch efforts to attract anti-Thatcher sentiment received a timely boost from Labor Leader Michael Foot's manifest ineptness on the stump, as well as from the growing disarray within the Labor Party. The leftist New Statesman abandoned its traditional support for Labor, urging its readers to vote for the Alliance in an effort to "stop Thatcherism in its tracks." Concluded the 70-year-old weekly: "The priority now must be to deny Mrs. Thatcher her goal of a working majority large enough for her to railroad through another five years of New Rightism...
...emphasis on interactive role playing and the desire to "create stories of literary merit" provided a challenge to the membership and continued to attract even graduate members in the Cambridge area, members note...
...even without College sancity, many of these unofficial groups hold meetings with more regularity and attract more participation than most official organizations. In addition, the generally self-funded clubs are usually focused around one overly social activity or individual...
...1960s, when the National Park Service decreed that its holdings be kept as natural as possible and the animals be left to fend for themselves. Old dump sites, where the bears had long fed, were abruptly closed. Hotelkeepers were no longer allowed to put food out to attract bears for the amusement of guests. Well meant as it was, however, the new policy had unintended consequences. The bears began looking for food not only in campgrounds but outside the parks as well. They picked off sheep on nearby grazing land, prowled through mining and energy-exploration camps, and made scary...