Word: woo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same reform spirit is spreading to other areas. The Netherlands has raised its scientific-research budget by 45% over the past two years. British industry has just rented a "brain train" to tour university cities and woo reluctant engineering and science graduates. There is serious talk about untangling Europe's thicket of loosely drawn patent laws and providing new incentives for formation of Europe-wide companies. Prime Minister Wilson recently suggested the creation of a European Technological Community to pool the products of its science and laboratories. But Europe's postwar record at this type of cooperation...
...decision led both Maddox and Callaway to step up their efforts to woo individual legislators, but the advantage obviously belongs to Maddox. All but 29 of the 259 assemblymen are Democrats, who are unlikely to give Georgia its first Republican Governor since 1872. Maddox boasted that he had assurances of at least 175 votes, said that only one legislator had refused him, "and he was drunk." Said Callaway: "I never thought that it would be easy for a Republican to become Governor of Georgia...
...cities are to create better rapid-transit facilities and woo the driver back onto them, they may need to receive a bigger share of state and federal tax revenues than they now get. As for the cities and suburbs, they need to get together to form metropolitan transportation systems that will serve both more efficiently. And the public may as well face it: it will probably have to pay more. Many experts feel that low standards of transportation have been the result of artificial low-fare policies, frequently prompted by political considerations. Instead of driving more people to the auto...
...Arab schoolteacher in Jerusalem, Bedas fled Palestine when it became Israel in 1948. Rounding up $4,000, the refugee began his Beirut career as a moneychanger in a dingy fourth-floor office, amassed enough capital in three years of flamboyant dealings to start Intra in 1951. To woo his share of the flood of investment money pouring into Lebanon from oil-rich Saudi princes and frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt, Syria and Iraq, Bedas became adept at handling skittish clients. Once he even hauled a suitcase of stocks from his vault to the mountain mansion of a suspicious sheik...
...hardly that, but it afforded Indira Gandhi ample scope within which to woo the electorate. Her critics accuse Indira of having wobbled over the years from left to right and back again. If she recently seemed to be trending leftward, the reason probably sprang more from vote-catching considerations than from shifting convictions. For she knows that if the party fares poorly in the elections, her leadership will be challenged. Waiting for his chance is former