Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Plans for development in the inner cities are not a new concern. Beginning with the national Urban Renewal Program of the 1960s, and continuing with the Urban Development Action Grants (UDAG) in the late 1970s, the federal government has offered money to cities able to attract capital investment from businessmen. But until recently, that interest hadn't existed in Cambridge...
...very simplicity of the freeze proposal has helped attract so many millions of sympathizers. More precise or complicated nuclear arms control prescriptions-shelving plans for land-based cruise missiles in Europe, say -would not make inspirational rallying cries. And although the movement's freeze resolutions call for "bilateralism," the daunting difficulties implicit in U.S.-Soviet negotiations are rarely given more than glancing, wishful consideration. Says Molander of Ground Zero's 1983 plans: "Our next step is to approach the problem of how you go about dealing with the Russians...
Multinational companies offer some of the best jobs in less-developed countries because they can pay two to three times more than the going local wage. They therefore attract the brightest workers, and that can determine the direction of economic development. Another prestige job in the Third World is that of bus driver. Reason: poor people in a carless society depend on them for transportation...
...restaurants have empty tables, and taxi drivers roam the streets looking for a beckoning hand. What is needed, obviously, is something to make people flock to the area despite the weather. Out of such logic was born the New World Festival of the Arts, Miami's attempt to attract tourists and at the same time turn itself into one of the country's major cultural centers. But alas, as the 23-day festival was coming into its final stretch last week, it had still drawn more mosquitoes than people...
...Arab world, there is a widespread belief that if a child is too beautiful or brilliant, he may attract the evil eye. Parents were once known to disfigure especially pretty babies in order to protect them. God should have arranged some such mild, pre-emptive mutilation for Lebanon. He did not, however...