Word: attempt
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...such. The bill contains only slim provisions for drug research and education and none at all for rehabilitation of addicts. Meanwhile the Administration launched "Operation Intercept" (see box, p. 70), described by officials as the largest search-and-seizure operation ever conducted by civil authorities in peacetime, in an attempt to stem the flow of drugs from Mexico...
...proposal that Pool, Licklider and their friends at ARPA were working on last spring was to be an attempt to convince the men who manage the Pentagon's research policies that 1) the behavioral science scould be developed to the status of a "hard" science, and 2' that such development would in turn concretely aid the Defense Department in achieving its goals at home and around the world...
...Cambridge Project, funded by the Defense Department, will attempt to use computers for basic research in social science methodologies. Some radicals have attacked the Project as an alleged aid to counter-revolutionary warfare...
Several of the people evicted from the Center looked through student registers yesterday in an attempt to identify members of the invading band...
...group that entered the Center and violently ejected its occupants have never made a sustained attempt to change the pracices of the Center by argument or peaceful demonstration. In their assault on the building, they used massive force for no apparent political purpose. Yesterday's attack did not illuminate the alleged crimes of the Center for International Affairs and abandoned the restrained and intelligent action which might attract the mass support needed to accomplish social change most effectively...