Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole territory. "I am no socialist," says he, "and neither are my colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism, the M.R.P., the European Unionists, and we have adopted principles which correspond to the needs of Africa today." Chief need of Africa: "Lots of capital. But to attract it we must inspire confidence in investors. Our responsibility is to inform the African people of their responsibility in this matter...
...least one work comes from each), make up the exhibition hall for the "Provincetown Arts Festival-American Art of Our Time." Inside the tents, on long, wooden frame rows crowded too close for proper viewing, 400 paintings are hung alphabetically, a few inches apart. Badly lit, they nevertheless attract some 500 viewers a day, including a fair number of collectors who have already bought 53. The 400 were culled from 10,000 entries submitted to eight regional centers across the nation, then assembled at the Chrysler Museum for a final, prize-awarding judgment...
...these students whom the Faculty hopes to attract with its new program. The Faculty feels frustrated by students who have read widely, who can interpret and analyze what they have read, who can turn out good prose when they are writing for themselves, but who are unable to do the sort of work which receives A's and B's. It is hoped that the new program will in some manner stimulate these men, in President Pusey's words, into "the keenest possible challenge...
...having its share of the Sahara's resources." The French and Tunisians signed an agreement to build the pipeline across Tunisia at a cost of $95 million, which will give jobs to 2,000 Tunisians, turn the sleepy Tunisian port of Gabes into an active trade center and attract capital to a backward area...
Friday Club. The new zaibatsu are of a different stripe than their prewar predecessors. Single families, or single firms no longer control the great combines. The zaibatsu depend for leadership on the financiers of their powerful banks, have set up central liaison councils with euphemistic names designed to attract as little attention as possible. Mitsubishi's "Friday Club," presided over by blunt, crop-haired Mitsubishi Trading President Katsujiro Takagaki, 66, is simply a bimonthly meeting, of 22 Mitsubishi company presidents, who continue the cementing process by arranging loans and raising funds for brother companies...