Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever-expanding population, with more customers for business. Yet in some circumstances, the best way to keep localities attractive would be to restrain population growth. Another way would be to alter local tax policies. Since most communities depend chiefly on real estate taxes for their revenues, their leaders often woo development that tears up the landscape while producing congestion and other social ills. But attitudes are changing in some places. This month, for example, a special study council created by the California legislature called for "a population distribution policy." More important, the council warned that the profits must be taken...
...Equally contradictory is the fact that while the Russians and Chinese are pitching ideological woo at Brazzaville, the regime remains closely connected with France, its former colonial overlord and currently its chief source of foreign aid. Other uncertainties have arisen. At the new government's first public rally, the Internationale was played. Later, officials explained that it was not the new national anthem. A completely new anthem is being adopted. It simply had not been finished in time for the ceremony...