Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aims of self-appointed masters of social control. He writes of the socialization of production that "the industrialists...kept to themselves the knowledge of the process as a whole," while creating the vast armies of managers and labor. The socialization of reproduction, argues Lasch, amounted to a deliberate attempt to reduce parents "in the same way" to a passive dependence on a master...
...possibly apathetic student body creates another problem that convention members are worried about. Many students feel it may be futile to attempt to exert any kind of influence over an administration committed to making its own decisions. "It seems the students could not care less," William Mayer '79, a member of the convention and a CHUL member, said this week. "When they get shipped off to Radcliffe at the end of freshman year or when their hot breakfasts are taken away, they may get concerned. But as far as students trying to affect administrative decisions on University policies...
...anti-inflation program focusing on what sounds like the mildest kind of presidential jawboning. The White House will attempt to knock half a percentage point off the inflation rate (6.5% to 6.8% in 1977, by various measurements) by urging union leaders and corporate executives to hold wage and price boosts below the average for the past two years. To that end, Administration officials will try to convene informal panels of labor and corporate bosses to work out wage-price goals for specific industries, bearing in mind that some will need bigger increases than others. Said Carter firmly, and to much...
...early goal seemed to make the Bruins relax and Colorado took control, being foiled only by a brilliant Gerry Cheevers save on a power-play attempt and then by a post that kept the puck out when Cheevers lay sprawled...
Gregg Shephard had a breakaway attempt with the Bruins short-handed but Michelle Plasse foiled him with a brilliant save, picking his right leg off the ice in time to block a short Shephard shot with his thigh. In the last 60 seconds Rick Middleton almost made it 3-2 but his failure sent the game into the eventful final period...