Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bossert said that Harvard needs to continue to provide an exciting research environment in order to keep its present specialists, as well as attract talented young scholars. He and other tenured professors pointed to what they view as the advantages of a teaching career, an academic and personal freedom which is not possible in the corporate world and the stability of tenure...
...ASCs have also failed in their mission of helping to rescue beleaguered savings banks and S and Ls from financial failure. These thrift institutions are losing money at a catastrophic clip because they must now pay an average of 11.6% interest to attract deposits, while the mortgages and other assets on their books are earning only an average of 10.1%. Richard Pratt, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, said last week that about 80% of the 3,900 federally insured savings and loan associations lost money in 1981 and that some 400 of them will...
...first, he called himself a consultant and hired out his designing skills to such manufacturers as Ungaro, Zegna and Sicons. Armani kept busy at the drawing board, while Galeotti took care of business. By mid-decade, Armani had begun to attract local attention and a bit of international interest. Fred Pressman of Barney's recalls working with Armani in "an office no bigger than 14 by 14," crowded with one huge table and a few cane chairs used for everything from long business conferences to quick lunches. Bergdorf's Mello remembers "buying a collection of Armani...
Villar commented that tours such as this one act to solidify a team, as well as to attract new members to the program. "Beyond that," said Villar, the point of the tour is, "just to have a good time as a group...
...commission's optimism and its best efforts to deal with the general nature of the papacy, there is the particular nature of John Paul to contend with. Whatever his own ecumenical design, he is centralizing and strengthening papal authority, rather than moving it in a direction that would attract Anglicans...