Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Singapore's answer to such problems has been a massive effort to convert it self from Asia's largest warehouse to Southeast Asia's largest workshop. To attract industry, the government has channeled millions over the past three years into expanding power and water supplies, building roads and clearing factory sites. School graduates who would have followed family tradition by going into clerking or shopkeeping are being urged to train as technicians and engineers. To preserve responsible wage scales, the government this year passed laws trimming certain fringe benefits and reducing the unions' voice in management...
...effort to attract Mexican-Americans and Indians to the Business School is being carried out largely by College Relations Group of the Alumni Council in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah...
...Tuesday's Faculty meeting chose to argue about changing the titles of Junior members. John T. Dunlop's Committee on the Retention and Recruitment of Faculty concluded that the position of instructor was an anachronism that should be abolished and that Harvard must pay higher starting salaries to attract and hold good young men. The Faculty agreed and wanted to get its approval on the books, so that the new system of titles can be used in the next few months as departments make appointments...
...organizers of this year's fast are mainly those who fasted last year, Miss Ross said. They found last year's hunger strike to be "most effective on both the personal and communicative level," she said, meaning that starving people think and also attract a lot of attention...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS editor, made repeated fun of Willkie's campaign. "Spreading rapidly through professional ranks was the belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. He still drew curious crowds. As one sad Old Guardsman pontificated to another: dead whales on flat cars also attract crowds...