Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good old days, the Speaker would have arranged the favor with ease. But O'Neill demurred; he did not want to risk pressing his chairmen too far. Fund raisers for the party seek him out less often; they say they need a more compelling voice to attract new money. O'Neill has other, more private problems. He suffers from a painful prostate condition, and even though his doctors have told him he needs an operation, he refuses to undergo one. Tip is terrified of surgery. Instead, he takes medication constantly, despite the fact that the doctors have warned...
...turns of Old Soldier Dayan's political maneuvers. Early last month he announced the formation of his own Movement for National Renewal. As an independent candidate Dayan appeared to be a possible spoiler in the campaign, able to attract as many as 20 or 25 seats in the Knesset. But by last week the latest poll showed him taking only four seats. One possible explanation for his rapid slippage: voters' memories of a comparably idealistic third party in 1977, which generated high hopes but quickly split into bickering factions...
Harvard began the program, known as the Cambridge Option Plan, in 1978 to attract professors and other teaching personnel to Cambridge despite prevailing high housing costs...
...Alewife Development Project will include the transformation of half a dozen private ways into public streets with new pavement, shrubbery, and public utilities in order to attract manufacturing and research and development firms to the area...
...Louis County, because they did not want to pay to increase services. In the ensuing century, St. Louis was one of the few major cities that did not extend its boundaries. But by the 1950s, the automobile, cheap gas, fast highways and Government-backed mortgages had helped the county attract large numbers of city dwellers. The city made a bid to rejoin the county, but county residents rejected it. Back then the city had twice as many people as the county. Today the county has twice as many people as the city. Says George Wendel, director of St. Louis University...