Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People in certain fortunate industries and regions will probably avoid adversity, as they did in 1979. Those in the Southeast generally did well because the region's beneficent climate and low wage rates continued to attract business. The Southwest surged because its oil and natural gas were in heavy demand. Farmers in the Midwest grain belt and the far West prospered, largely because a hungry world increased its call for what America produces best: food. Average farm incomes increased 117% from 1970 to $23,263 per family in 1978 and are higher now. The region that fared best...
Laurie Stauffer, an OCS-OCL counselor, said yesterday that the rise does not reflect an increased effort to attract recruiters. She said OCS-OCL invites the same number of companies every year, but during the past few years more have decided to come...
...visual qualities of the games will improve quickly. Bambino has a two-color display system in the works that would allow one football team to wear blue uniforms and one to wear red, for instance. TV games, overshadowed this year, should attract more interest when Mattel Electronics introduces Intellivision, a game system with realistic, multicolored graphic displays. Learning capability can be built into small computers. The costs will be higher, but if customers will pay $40 this year, they may pay $75 next year...
...Judas" by Afrikaner audiences. In four parliamentary by-elections last month, more than half the eligible voters boycotted the balloting as a sign of displeasure with the new policies. Former Cabinet Minister Connie Mulder has founded a new pro-apartheid Action Front for National Priorities that could attract the support of disillusioned Afrikaners during the next election...
...inability of the department to attract tenured faculty members...