Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News of the violence has hurt Mugabe's efforts to attract foreign investments. Twice in the past month, guerrillas seeking to overthrow the Marxist government of neighboring Mozambique blew up a pipeline that fed essential supplies of oil to Zimbabwe from the Mozambican port city of Beira. As a result, streets and highways in Zimbabwe are now largely deserted, many workers stay home, and motorists who insist on filling up must wait for as long as 24 hours for a turn at the pump. Even nature seems to have conspired against the country: much of Zimbabwe is parched from...
Fighting to attract customers to these new accounts, S and Ls and banks are offering a bewildering array of double-digit interest rates, bonuses and prizes. The competition may threaten the survival of hundreds of small institutions that cannot afford to match the come-ons of their rivals. Says Robert Lackovic, executive vice president president of the San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Savings: "It's going to be a real dogfight. The one thing regulation did was to produce a system in which the consumer knew he could walk in anywhere and get the same product. That...
...closet, use the ads to find quick action. Senior citizens, the handicapped ("I walk with a cane") and those with concerns ("SWM . . . seeks WF WITHOUT HERPES") can come right to the point without hours of social jousting. Once the natural home of kinks and losers, the classified personals now attract people known to advertisers as "upscale." Even the Village Voice, which handles about 50,000 replies to love personals each year, says its audience is "mid-30s, affluent, with many professionals...
Both visions are fantasies, cartoons of the harder, drearier, subtler economic realities. The first is closer to the truth. Unfortunately, the months of recession and traumatic unemployment have begun to attract many Americans to the second vision, the protectionist illusion...
...most officials are optimistic about getting formal approval of the guidelines form the faculties this spring. Martin and others acknowledge potential snags at some of the graduate schools. A loss of universal support, however, should not diminish the underlying effect of the rules, which officials hope will be to attract and solidly a number of possible agreements...