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...They'd woo me with an overtime win over B.U. and a trouncing of New Hampshire on the road, then bring me crashing down to a painful, melancholy with a loss at Princeton, a disaster at Maine, blow-the-lead ties at Yale and Brown...
Some showed up to woo votes--state Senate candidate George Bachrach bounced from group to group introducing himself. And others were there to shoot the political breeze that is the lifeblood of many Cantabrigians...
...been more intensely involved in the urgent task of analyzing and evaluating the new crisis and planning a counteroffensive than Carter. Instead of stumping through Iowa in a last-minute effort to woo supporters for this week's important Democratic Party caucuses, the President barely got out of the White House last week (34 members of his staff and family, however, campaigned extensively for him in Iowa). Believing that the world may be at a juncture from which a new global balance of power could emerge, Carter is determined that America must take the lead and chart a course into...
Foreign Investment: The government in 1977 took many steps under a new law to woo foreign investors, including removing limits on their remittances of profits and capital and granting them the same rights as local investors. Money has been pouring into the country ever since. U.S. companies in the past two years have invested $600 million, and a third of that has gone into mining. By the end of the 1980s, foreign investment, mainly from the U.S., should exceed $5 billion...
...woo the public's interest, many libraries across the country are adding special services and cultural come-ons. The Chicago public library offers a debt counseling service. In Des Moines, the library publishes a monthly newsletter that includes tips on renting apartments. In Ohio, the Columbus-Franklin County library has made available a computer bank of statewide job openings. Richmond has a sidewalk kiosk where browsers can check out bestsellers and paperbacks. "I used to be a real elitist," says Librarian Howard Smith. "But we're trying to get people to read at no matter what level...