Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...inaccurate--ignoring that even the school's slightly amended figures give it a shamefully small minority and woman population. They have hidden behind claims that they made "serious offers" of faculty posts to five anonymous women (who declined the "offers")--failing to see that ineffectual "good faith" efforts to attract scholars won't change the school's stodgy white-male outlooks...
These activities are carefully designed to keep the Exxon names in the student's eye, both to attract him as a potential employee and to influence future corporate leaders and government officials who might be in a position to help the company some day. "These 1500 students are going out into all walks of life, and pretty quickly influencing society," McCreery says, leaving unsaid Exxon's opinion that if these future decisionmakers have a rosy picture of the corporation because of their exposure to its recruiting literature in business school, so much the better...
...revolt, several well-organized right-wing groups have captured the ideological as well as political momentum away from the liberals (a word now about as popular as "child molester" with politicians). What's good for General Motors has become once again good for everyone. Tax abatements to attract business are a national fad, even though Kuttner says they do not succeed in attracting business, and even if they did, would not generate enough tax revenue to make up for their cost. Furthermore, he attacks the Right's insistence that the government causes all inflation. He notes that Germans, living...
...must attract more and better young officers into its diplomatic corps and intelligence services. That means raising both pay scales and mo rale; it also means increasing the size and quality of the talent pool from which those services draw. There is a desperate need for a new commitment by Government and the private sec tor alike to foreign-language and area-studies programs in high schools and colleges. However far removed this is sue may seem from the crisis of the mo ment in the Persian Gulf or Eastern Europe, the ability of the U.S. to deal with those...
...basis of its success in attracting 85,000 business customers, MCI is now going after private clients. Since last March, MCI has used sometimes stinging advertisements to attract 200,000 new household customers. Example: "If you're still using Bell for long-distance calls, you must be one of their major stockholders...