Word: attractions
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Interior Minister has consistently, although narrowly, led the polls all year, and has allowed his lieutenants to begin sketching plans for government as if their victory were assumed. But Sarkozy, too, faces a balancing act. Maintaining his two- to four-point lead over Royal depends on him continuing to attract at least some of the almost 17% of French voters who backed Le Pen in 2002. It is to secure their votes that Sarkozy has made calls for a clampdown on immigration and emphasis on France's national identity and Christian roots a centerpiece of his campaign...
...curmudgeonly 79-year-old Le Pen, however, still appears to attract the bulk of the anti-immigration vote, running fourth with 14% of the vote (five points behind Bayrou). He can't win, of course, but his persistent appeal shows that for part of the French electorate, the most utile vote remains one that declares a pox on the French political class as a whole...
...paychecks remained large enough to attract criticism though, and even as Silverman steered Cendant to a profit peak of $2 billion in 2004, investors were unimpressed. So he heeded their grumbling and broke up the company. The hotels became Wyndham Worldwide, rental cars the Avis Budget Group, travel distribution (Orbitz, Galileo) Travelport, and real estate Realogy. Blackstone bought Travelport last year, and now Realogy belongs to Apollo...
...creative birth control, not to mention confession. Harvard Civil War Reenactment Club: How better to lead the Union (or Confederacy) into battle than with a cannon? Also consider Harvard Pirate Association (HPA). “Avoid the Freshman Fifteen” Club: You could create this organization to attract the ‘11 ladies. There’s still time to table during Prefrosh Weekend...
...formidable institutional obstacles for any junior faculty member hoping to become a full tenured professor, in addition to being one of the only universities in the nation that does not offer tenured associate professorships.Harvard tends to be relatively unconcerned with in-house promotion since it knows that it can attract older, already established names. This is compounded by the tenure system, which gives tremendous power to experts from outside of Harvard who serve on ad hoc committees, write letters comparing potential appointees, and who know more about citation counts than a professor’s reputation within a department. Furthermore...