Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese sci-fi flick, pushing and shoving each other with their horns. If one beetle seemed to be getting the upper hand, the other often slumped on its side, blocking the first beetle's path. The more aggressive beetle would then use his horns as levers in an attempt to dislodge his opponent. Sometimes the defender flipped over on his back and locked horns directly with the aggressor. All the while, as the beetles lunged at each other, they made loud squeaking noises...
...Richard Cyert, president of Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU). These were some of the reactions to the surprise award last week of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Economics to Herbert A. Simon, 62, a professor of psychology and computer science at CMU. Choosing Simon may be an attempt by the Nobel committee to broaden the basis for the economics prize, which has come under muted criticism for being too narrowly focused; some economists believe the prize should be expanded to include outstanding work in all the social sciences...
...every clubbie who calls himself a hedonist rather than an elitist, there are ten other non-clubbies who can't see the high striding tuxedos as anything but an attempt at elitism. Fun or vanity, final clubs have and will continue to constitute an economic and social elite at Harvard...
Nevertheless, most workers said last week they remain gravely dissatisfied with the contract: and with their union leadership. Many workers interviewed said they believe the union leadership overemphasized the inflexibility of the University's position in an attempt to discourage a strike vote...
...almost a decade, each fall has witnessed the curious ritual of the University administration's attempt to entice undergraduates to elect representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), a student-faculty disciplinary committee formed in the wake of the 1969 student strike. And for almost as many years, undergraduates replied with a terse...