Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...money be found? Even a UNESCO spokesman seemed dubious because, as he put it, the only recompense would be "a few priceless treasures of history, perhaps not enough to attract the necessary funds...
...take things out of it"). Now Sabba's string of eleven corporations is making tin cans and rubber tapping cups, shotgun shells, kraft paper, oil drums, prefabricated houses, dynamite. He distills essential oils, makes leather products, refines and distributes petroleum. He has set up a businessman committee to attract others to .the frontier...
This leads to the proposal for a new type course to replace the far-flung surveys. They would probe smaller areas, but penetrate deeper. Based on the combined desire to attract more students, and the premise that the goal is a more intelligent understanding of the public issues of the past and present, the courses would be designed around the topical approach. Examples would be courses on the corporation, on the economic impact of government activity, the present course on the Soviet Union, a half-year course on underdeveloped countries. In discussing this approach, Dunlop stressed that these would...
...Plan calls for 60% of shares to be sold to the public, 20% to be held by Bonn, 20% by Lower Saxony. To prevent majority control by a single group and to spread ownership as widely as possible, the $25 shares will be rationed five to an investor. To attract lower-income customers, initial sale will be restricted to German citizens making less than $4,000 a year...
...same attitude of non-interference extends to the faculty, in practice almost as much as in theory. Individualism never strays far from the minds of the Administration. Bradley concludes the argument for freedom of action and thought with an explanation of the University's ability to attract and hold good men without paying high salaries. "At other places there is always a pattern you have to live in. Penn is very individualistic; if a man does a good job and maintains his contacts, he is safe here...