Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sessions of the Supreme Soviet rarely attract much notice outside the Soviet Union, where the legislative body is dismissed as a rubber-stamp parliament. However, last week's gathering in the vaulted, neoclassical chamber of the Great Kremlin Palace was different. As the 1,500 Deputies filed in to take their seats, diplomats and journalists who crammed the visitors' gallery animatedly discussed only one topic: Would there be a selection of the next President of the Soviet Union? Since Leonid Brezhnev's death on Nov. 10, the ceremonial and highly visible post has been vacant. Kremlin watchers...
...continued funding on the grounds that the Women's Center does not serve enough Harvard women, the numbers say otherwise. Four hundred and fifty people participated in the Take Back the Night March two years ago; hundreds more took part in last year's Rape Awareness Weekend. Open houses attract between 15 and 30 undergraduates to the center every other Friday afternoon and women's groups like the Radeliffe Lesbians Association and Among Women, a discussion group, actually use it as a meeting place. Last year's ERA action teams worked out of the Clearinghouse, as will this year...
...committee hoped that the marble and glass facility, with its soaring nine-story atrium, 16-foot ceilings, and state-of-the art office facilities, would attract 50 Senators and their staffs, while the other 50 would spread out in the older buildings. Who would not want a more spacious, more modern office, given the choice...
...Allston-Brighton Civic Association, an organization of residents from the area surrounding the Stadium, led local opposition to professional football at Harvard. Citizens warmed that USFL games would produce unmanageable traffic jams and attract unwelcome visitors to their neighborhoods, Schmidt said...
Thailand too has entered the Hong Kong sweepstakes. A new top-level government task force is studying how residence restrictions and business taxes could be eased to attract Hong Kong investors. In the Philippines, three business groups have proposed new free-trade ports. Banker-Developer Enrique Zobel even suggests transforming the small, barren island of Mactan, off Cebu city, into a "mini-Hong Kong" and operating it like an autonomous business and trading center...