Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Better Training and Pay for Teachers. There should be incentives to attract outstanding students to the teaching profession and a system to recognize and financially reward superior teachers. Teachers should also have eleven-month contracts to ensure time to improve curriculums...
Even though the CURL plan has thrown a wrench into the administrative cogwheel at Princeton, most students were unfazed by the changes and went on about their business. Campus-wide issues at Princeton don't attract the excitement and fury they do at Harvard. This year has been especially quiet and was termed "depoliticized" by one frustrated activist and "almost dull" by Andy Brown, who graduated from Princeton' at the height of student turbulence in the 1960s. "It's a little discouraging, actually, that this year has been so quiet," said Brown...
Spiers said that although some people feel outdoor rock concerts attract undesirbale listeners, his group is different...
...remains to be seen if Hollywood will return the favor and if her fascinating aura can attract the mass of moviegoers. The odds are against her, on three counts. No European performer since Audrey Hepburn has become a blazing star of American movies; actresses these days have fewer options, fewer succulent roles offered them, than actors; and American films are in a period of relative indifference toward the very notion of stardom, instead putting their faith in big-budget special effects and no-name sex comedies. Kinski may have to settle for her current status as a celebrity commodity...
...Wednesday with a service in Memorial Church that included remarks from Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King and State Sen. Jack H. Backman. But Shaw said the weekly fasts will seek to involve and educate students rather than following the tactics of the earlier hunger strikers, who sought to attract outside attention. "The only way Harvard will divest is if students take up the issue," he added...