Word: attractions
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Some current concentrators said that the proposal would be able to attract more students to the oft intimidating concentration...
...investment; it is a question of national economic security. The current system marginalizes the millions of dollars of educational investment that American schools make every year by forcing potentially productive members of the labor force to return home. And when American universities are even struggling to attract future engineers and scientists who are American-born, it only makes sense that firms in the U.S. should recruit from the best and brightest all over the world. Moreover, if the United States does not significantly change the way that it admits new Americans, it runs the risk of falling behind other industrialized...
...Schiefsky said that the department is not simply trying to attract more students...
...Originally, health benefits were intended to draw in attractive job candidates. "The original story behind medical benefits was that companies wanted to attract family men," says Stacey Kole, a human resources expert at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "Because they perceived married men to be more stable and productive than those in the marriage market." Now that there is little differentiation among benefits across the private sector, many companies rely less on benefits in attracting ideal applicants. Even as private employers have cut back on their pensions and benefit promises, though, public entities, which make...
...Zanu-PF would be quite happy to govern without the participation of an opposition party against which it has repeatedly unleashed systemic violence, except for the fact that only with the MDC on board will Zimbabwe be able to attract the international aid and investment desperately needed to avoid social and economic collapse. Mugabe's party is widely seen internationally as having stolen the election, and international donors and investors are unlikely to do anything that might be seen as propping up his regime. And the social and economic pressure on Mugabe is clearly mounting. (See pictures of Robert Mugabe...