Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peak of affirmative action ended in the'70s. Colleges just are not making a substantialeffort to attract minorities anymore," Wilsonsaid...
...order to maintain its quality, the facultymust attract the cream of the nation's youngscholars and help them become top contenders fortenure here, Spence said...
...account for 50% of U.S. comic-book sales. As always, success has inspired imitators. B. Dalton and Waldenbooks have begun carrying comics in most of their 1,753 bookstores. Supermarkets, which account for about 35% of magazine sales, still resist the trend, on the ground that comic books attract loitering youths. Nonetheless, the Waldbaum, Pathmark and Safeway chains have decided that Archie Comics are clean-cut enough to be displayed at check-out counters...
David Hirst, 50, a correspondent for Britain's daily Guardian, was hauled into a black BMW by three gunmen in Muslim West Beirut when the taxi in which he was riding stopped with a flat tire. Blindfolded and with a gun at his temple, Hirst shouted and kicked to attract attention as he was driven through the city, ignoring a gunman's threats to shoot him if he did not desist. "I tried to make as much noise as I could, especially when the car stopped or slowed down at traffic jams," he recounted...
Assuming Spence was correct in saying that Harvard strives to attract top notch junior faculty, what does refusing tenure to more than 75 percent of this group indicate? What does this say about our senior faculty...