Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, the President warned at a Camp David meeting with his Cabinet last month that he expected his appointees to begin acting more like members of the Carter team. No longer were they to attempt bureaucratic end runs around senior White House aides. When telephoned by such senior aides as Hamilton Jordan, Press Secretary Jody Powell or Congressional Liaison Chief Frank Moore, Cabinet members were to respond as if the President himself were calling. Full debate was fine before a policy was set, Carter said, but once a decision was made, public dissent or anonymous leaking would be viewed...
...even now, little is known of Biko's place in South African history, of the role he played in the struggle for the liberation of the African majority. Woods's Biko, written immediately after Biko's death while Woods himself was prohibited from writing, is the first widely-circulated attempt to answer these questions. More than a biography, Biko is a description of Steve Biko, of the ideas on which the Black Consciousness movement is based, and of the reasons those ideas are so important. In the end, we need wonder no longer how Biko could have inspired...
...clicking along, playing a neat counterpoint in the background. Of course, not everyone agrees with what is going on: at Georgetown University, for instance, the Rev. Richard T. McSorley, professor of theology, still demonstrates alone against the school's ROTC program. Decrying what he calls the army's attempt "to 'psychologize' students into accepting militarism," McSorely marches alone every week in front of the school's main library, wearing a sandwich board that asks, "Would You Be Proud of an 'A' in ROTC...
...majority rule. This we did when I was in office, and I support the efforts of the Administration in this direction. But majority rule must be given a concrete content. What exactly is the basis for our opposition to the so-called internal solution in Rhodesia? I favor the attempt to enable all leaders and factions to participate in the proposed elections. At the same time let us take care not to turn majority rule into a device by which those who could not win an election try to force their way into office by the threat of force. Majority...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, Harvard sociology professor: "The Dallas plan was a joke. Boston set out to desegregate its schools. Dallas set out to attempt to avoid desegregating its schools...