Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While income from such arrangements constitutes less than 5 percent of the University's total research budget, officials note a continuing trend towards such arrangements, as well as several new Harvard initiatives to attract funds from the private sector...
...F.D.N.'s public relations debut last week did not go smoothly. The contras announced a new leadership team in a bid to attract other anti-Sandinistas under a broadened F.D.N. umbrella. But more questions were raised than answered. The six new leaders stressed their opposition to Somoza as well as to the Sandinistas. But the biographical handouts were suspiciously skimpy. The group was an odd mix: from the respectable Lucia Cardenal Salazar, the widow of a Somoza opponent killed by the Sandinistas, to Enrique Bermúdez, a colonel in the National Guard and Somoza's defense attach...
...last September, blaming them for the disaster. To prevent any further flight of capital, he imposed onerous foreign exchange controls that have made it virtually impossible, at least legally, for individuals or enterprises to buy goods in the U.S. Together, the moves have hampered Mexico's ability to attract foreign investment, which had been one of the primary resources for the postwar "Mexican miracle." Says Manufacturing Executive Carlos López: "We haven't been in worse shape since the Revolution...
Organizers hope to attract about 400 dancers from the University and Cambridge. Their goal is to raise $10,000 from pledges solicited by the participants...
...then Katherine Anne had disposed of two husbands and, she claimed, 37 lovers. Two more husbands and uncounted lovers were still to come. Wherever she traveled, she seemed to attract admirers from the streets and from the ivory towers. Every literary encounter was charged with sexual significance. Poet Karl Shapiro commemorated her brief meeting with a colleague: "And when Dylan Thomas was introduced/ To Katherine Anne Porter in a room full of people,/ He stopped and picked her up below the thighs/ And raised her to the ceiling like a drink,/ And held her straight in the slack-jawed smoke...