Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...companies have also become shelters for junior faculty members who have been denied tenure at their universities. And finally, nearly all of the corporations are trying to attract faculty consultants at the forefront of their fields, who will be able to set up labs and direct research activity on a long-term basis. As bonus bait they offer stocks--worth little now but potentially valued in the millions if the venture succeeds...
While it once seemed that Helms would be a strange, one-term evanescence, he began to attract a following. He was never sniping away just for the citizens of Raleigh and Asheville and Monroe. By his extreme doggedness on one issue or another?busing, feminism, gold, guns, always abortion?he won the esteem of single-minded sects all over the U.S. Says one first-term Senator who understands the effectiveness of that strategy: "Every person in the Senate knows Jesse could unloose that barrage of letters. It makes them think twice...
BUSING. This is one issue on which the New Right can attract votes from legislators who would not side with it on any other matters. But again the question is how best to stop it? Jesse Helms has introduced a rider-to the bill authorizing funds for the Department of Justice-that would ban Government initiation of desegregation cases that would lead "directly or indirectly" to busing for the purpose of racial integration. His move has so far been blocked by a Senate filibuster by liberal Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut. Moreover, Helms' effort has been complicated by another...
...last month received a new and different kind of bonus: high interest rates. Banks and savings and loan associations across the U.S. unleashed massive advertising campaigns to induce customers to sign up early for the new All Savers Certificates. The A.s.C.s were devised to help ailing S and Ls attract business by offering higher interest rates than those given on passbook accounts and a partial tax exemption on yields. Banks and S and Ls have been promising depositors annual interest rates of 20%, 30% and even 50% until Oct. 1, when the All Savers accounts officially start...
Critics charge, however, that the A.s.C.s are a giveaway to the savings institutions because the tax-free provision is just a way of lowering the amount of interest that they have to pay in order to attract depositors. Opponents also point out that the financial firms are under no obligation to put the new funds into mortgages...