Word: attractions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...laud the determination auto racers display at the Indy 500 [May 31]. I am a spectator who does not get pleasure from watching fiery wrecks or drivers die. It's the love of speed, the exhilaration, the sound and smell of the track that attract racing worshipers...
...thrilling sight of his brothers in the amateurs began to attract him to the sport. "It was so great; I just thought it was so impressive . . . being a fighter." So he gathered his courage and went out for Golden Gloves. "When I won the first time [age 16, a lanky middleweight], it came over the announcements at school [Walt Whitman High]. Sitting in homeroom, I got goose bumps all over my arms and legs...
After all, a professor with a big enough name to attract Harvard's attention undoubtedly has an elaborate and hard-to-move research project underway--especially, if he is a scientist or social scientist--with his own laboratory or computer center or team of graduate students. This is to say nothing of the family ties that make it all the more difficult to pick up and relocate in Cambridge, as Davis points...
...will quell the antinuclear protests that are scheduled to greet Reagan at each stop is unclear. A disarmament rally in London's Hyde Park on the day before Reagan arrives is expected to draw 200,000 people. In Bonn, a demonstration that has been planned since March may attract as many...
Whatever is decided, Britain would want the security of the Falklands to be guaranteed by a number of countries in the Southern Hemisphere plus the U.S. Britain would also be faced with the cost of repairing the war damages, but would want to attract as many nations as possible to invest in developing the islands. Says Foreign Secretary Pym: "The best future for the islanders will be in rebuilding. If there is peace, stability and friendship in the whole region, people are more prosperous and their economic future is brighter." Pym also feels that the Falklands and Argentina must work...