Word: attracted
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...higher- status groups generally, the authors report, birth rates in traditional Protestant churches dropped below replacement levels in the 1960s, and future trends are alarming because of the rising average ages of members. Moreover, note Roof and McKinney, while liberal congregations never excelled at converting nonbelievers, they used to attract a steady flow of "switchers" from other churches. Social-climbing gains by high-prestige mainline churches began to dwindle in the 1960s...
This renewed commitment to basketball has not brought Harvard its first Ivy League championship, but it has allowed Roby the tools to consistently attract prized student-athletes. James and Dana and Ian Smith matriculated at Harvard last year, Mitchell this year and five top recruits-- including First Team All-Massachusetts Matt McClain--will enroll in Harvard next fall...
...look over his shoulder prevents Bush from taking as much credit as he might for his early successes. "If they draw too much attention to this approach of taking what you can get from the Democrats in Congress," says a Bush adviser outside Government, "they're going to attract more fire from the conservatives." Instead, Bush will soon emphasize his toughness on two issues dear to the right: his veto strategy to "hold the line" on the minimum wage and his plan to build more prison cells. As a wry college coach once put it, the trick is to keep...
...Nobel Peace laureate Andrei Sakharov one of their 20 seats in the congress. Independent deputies and supporters of such unofficial groups as the popular front movements in the Baltic States have already gathered in Moscow to discuss forming a loose parliamentary bloc called the March Coalition. The group could attract as many as 10% of the members of the new Congress of People's Deputies, presenting Gorbachev with something akin to an organized opposition...
...dissenting voices on both the right and the left have had little effect on the majority of 1789 commemorations. Celebrations large and small, local and national, will attract record numbers of tourists to France. If these do not mark a true festival of reconciliation, the French can still take pride in the passion they have for their history. In Lyons, Jacques Tournier, the descendant of a water carrier who was guillotined in 1793, recalls that his grandmother refused to walk past the place in the market where the execution machine stood. "Now I too avoid that spot out of respect...