Word: attractions
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...construction. "It's like an arms race going on in the entertainment industry," says Alexander. Finding workers to operate the parks is another headache. Disney, Universal and Sea World have had to raise their starting hourly pay to more than $6 an hour (the federal minimum is $5.15) to attract and retain employees...
...growing up, once considered the proper subject of gloomy poetry read under the blankets and angry rock songs rehearsed in the garage, can now mean a quick ticket to the doctor's office. And it doesn't take a lot of acting up for a restless teenager to attract professional attention. On a website sponsored by Channel One, a television network for school-age youth, a recent posting written with the help of the National Association for Mental Illness classified the following behaviors as possible symptoms of manic depression in teens: "increased talking--the adolescent talks too much," "distractibility," "unrealistic...
...WARS Attention, e-shoppers: Online stores are now doing silly things to attract your business, including, it seems, selling dollar bills for 50[cents]. Last week Amazon.com upped its discounts on best sellers (hardcover and paperback), from about 30% to 50% off list price, a money-losing move that rivals Barnesandnoble.com and Borders.com quickly matched. Meanwhile, Shopping.com has introduced a 125% satisfaction guarantee, and Onsale.com and Outpost.com are offering free shipping...
...results from the first test administration in April 1998 were even worse, prompting Massachusetts politicians to institute a series of incentives to attract talented adults to the profession of teaching...
Cloutier said the scholarship is designed to attract those students who might otherwise not consider Harvard and to maintain Harvard's need-blind admissions policy...