Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, the Soviet press ignored Vance's speech, and there was no sense of crisis in Moscow. In Havana, where Cuban officials generally interpreted the uproar as an attempt to mar the summit conference of non-aligned nations, nobody even answered a protest by Wayne Smith, the head of the U.S. Interests Section. One Cuban Foreign Ministry official quipped: "Americans see Russians everywhere." In friendlier countries too there was little alarm over the Cuban situation...
...Brien says the agency has made "no attempt to arrive at a balanced judgement; what they look for--when they come in every three or five years--is insufficient documentation." Scott puts it more simply when he says, "Harvard manages its funds in a way that makes sense to Harvard. HEW has criticized us for not documenting our expenditures very well--but they did not find the right documents." Both are convinced that when the University is allowed to scrutinize the audit in detail, the vast majority of the discrepancies will be "negotiated away." Meanwhile, in the Office of Research...
Three years ago, the union had reason for concern. Former police chief David L. Gorski put a freeze on hiring for the three years he was at Harvard, an action the union interpreted as an administration attempt to reduce the size of the police force through attrition. Though the threat of a reduction in the size of uniformed police officers still remains, the administration has taken steps to instill confidence in the force...
...attempt to open the tests to public scrutiny and to begin answering some of these questions is currently meeting stiff and unwarranted opposition. New York state this year enacted the nation's first "truth in testing" law requiring Education Testing Services (ETS) and other, smaller testing services to mail a student his corrected exam on request...
Director Jerry Schatzberg has transferred television production techniques to the big screen in an attempt to reinforce the film's relation to current events like the Draft Kennedy movement. The effect is a cheap look for the film. A national convention scene looks like a Mets game, with an embarrassing sea of empty seats in the background. There is little location shooting, especially in Washington where the opportunities are abundant, which saps whatever realism Schatzberg managed to achieve with his spare direction...