Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though many rent control advocates didn't expect the ballot question to pass, they were hoping to attract voters who were interested in rent control...
That isn't an ad for a 12-step program for workaholics. It's an act of employer desperation. Steve Loegering, president and CEO of Loegering Manufacturing, ran the pitch to attract workers to his firm in Casselton, N.D., 20 miles west of Fargo, in what Loegering jokingly labels the state's "tropical corner...
With this tremendous wealth comes a lot of opportunity--and a lot of power. Harvard can attract the best students, from every imaginable background, and admit them without regard to need or circumstance. It can entice the most promising and accomplished faculty with impressive salaries and a host of other benefits. It can maintain the nation's finest library system and still afford to keep its laboratories, dormitories, classrooms, and athletic and dining facilities in top condition. Taken together, these privileges--and make no mistake, they are privileges--allow Harvard to wield tremendous power...
...Unfortunately, the use of famous voices to attract general audiences in America degrades the brilliance of what is, on its own, a wonderful film, and interferes with the creation of a captivating fantasy. Several of the vocal performances are wonderful, such as Billy Crudup as Ashitaka and Gillian Anderson as Moro the Wolf Goddess. Crudup is entirely believable, sounding in turn appropriately brave, vulnerable, and kind. Gillian Anderson's voice is altered here, designed to sound more godlike (the effect succeeds). Her growling tones are menacing and eerie, and her Moro is as intelligently complex as many of the human...
...first serious female Republican candidate for the presidency, many believed that Dole would help attract women voters to the Republican Party...