Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city neighborhoods. "You can't give mixed signals to business," he says. "We can't say we want growth but only in certain areas." He believes, for example, that residential water rates must be raised in the city if new water sources are to be developed to attract industry. To the chagrin of COPS, he also favors raising user fees for public services like garbage collection, and acknowledges that the city may eventually have to raise property taxes to help offset a projected $18.5 million deficit...
...Uhse's operations, she has tried to take the sleaze out of sex. Her Blue Movie Cinemas, which attract married couples as well as the raincoat set, are clean, well lighted and have potted plants in the screening rooms. In her sex supermarkets, shoppers stroll through spacious, attractive displays with grocery-style wire baskets as they select their dildos and see-through lingerie. Uhse, twice married and now divorced, says that she personally tests many of her wares before putting them on the market...
...trying to attract a whole generation of listeners who have been raised on visual entertainment," says Executive Producer Richard Toscan, "people who think of radio only as background...
Unlike Kark's Army detachment, which sends letters to all Harvard freshmen and sophomores. Orton's Air Force unit makes little effort to attract Harvard students. "We just don't think that it's worth the energy to go there," he says...
...addition to these factors, like so many things in life, the success of a swim club often comes down to cash. "A lot of it is the development of the economic context that allows clubs to attract the good swimmers from their areas and the ones nearby," said Starlit Coach Alan Caldwell. "Every year we have to go through the process of going out and trying to round up sponsors." The importance of money lies not only in the day-to-day upkeep of the facility, but in the ability to help top swimmers make the trip...