Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laurence H. Tribe, professor of Law, said yesterday the Law School sought for a long time to attract Amsterdam to the faculty. "There is nothing new or special in Harvard's desire to get Amsterdam." Tribe added...
Darryll Deever (William Hurt), a young Vietnam Veteran, works as a janitor and dreams of meeting Tony Sokolow (Sigouney Weaver), a beautiful television reporter. When a man is murdered, Deever pretends to know more than he does--to attract Tony. He discovers that his innocent lies attract more than the reporter: the killers want him; the victim's cohorts want him; the police want him and Tony Sokolow only wants the story...
...support for the draft in Congress, and within some of the services. The president remains opposed to the draft. He is opposed to the compulsive aspect of it. He would like very much to see if by increasing salaries and educational and other benefits we cannot attract enough people to the services. We will need more people, and we're ordering more planes and ships and one thing or another so we'll need more people in the armed services. We hope to get them on an entirely voluntary basis, and that's what the increased benefits are designed...
Although Coop managers claim that the high cost of searching for and maintaining a well-ordered stock of student readings and supplies often leaves their textbook operations in the red, they cannot deny that their secure situation in the Cambridge and Boston market allows them to attract students and other customers to the rest of the store's inevitably overpriced products. And if the Coop's revenues are accordingly high, its labor costs are quite low. The transient nature of the unskilled labor force in the Boston-Cambridge area allows management to pay low wages. In fact, the Coop attracts...
...After Trinity. Academy Award nominee for best documentary, should attract the attention of citizens concerned about Pentagon plans to start gearing up for a renewed arms race. The legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer provides a sobering example to those concerned about the increase in nuclear weapons. Having seen the first atomic explosion. Oppenheimer knew the world should see no more. He began that work on the day after Trinity, but, as this film makes clear, the struggle to create the bomb may prove easier than the struggle to control...