Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White stated that the decrease in concentrators might be a temporary phenomenon. "In two or three years the stiffer requirements may increase the department's reputation and attract more and better people," he said...
...other Council action, Sloane proposed that two new people be elected to the Council to serve as special NSA representatives. He stated that this would give new prestige to the office and attract better people, "people who see the whole broad concept of the Student Council...
...Affirmative Good. World Banker Black, who has lent $3.1 billion to 45 nations since World War II, admitted that the boom has left the free world "short of breath" (see The Shortage of Money). Yet, he declared, "today it is broadly true that the opportunity to attract foreign private capital is there for those nations which have the will and courage to grasp...
...People," said he, "must come to accept private enterprise, not as a necessary evil, but as an affirmative good. Governments must cease just tolerating private business; they must welcome its contribution and go out of their way to attract it and even to woo it. And there must be a fundamental reversal of the traditionally hostile attitude, by governments and peoples alike, toward the profit motive...
World Bank President Eugene Black spoke for most U.S. businessmen when he criticized governments for "stifling" private enterprise through state ownership of productive industries. Several Asians contended that government financing was essential for key industries that do not readily attract private investment. But neither Black nor any other speaker at the conference argued that an agricultural nation could hope to struggle up from poverty until its government has developed the basic facilities of an industrial economy: roads, harbors, railways, communications, schools, reservoirs, power plants. In fact, since private capital is seldom available for such projects, the government must foot...