Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Celts managed a late comeback attempt scoring eight straight to close with three, at 92-89, on a Cowens three-point play with 2:34 remaining. Maravich, who scored six of his points in the closing minutes, took charge from there, though to ice the game...
...represent the height of professionalism--for the primary reason that they are not professionals. The use of students as a major component of the recruitment directive--students without training, students without real office support, students without compensation, and students without adequate operating funds--looks in fact like an attempt by the admissions office to discredit and cripple minority recruitment...
...Cambridge City Council will attempt for the third time to elect a Mayor for the City of Cambridge tonight, although no councilor is expected to receive the necessary five votes to assume the office...
...requirement is an attempt to hurry students through the department without looking at why they're there for so long, Davenport said. "We're not lazy," he said, adding that the department's structure does not give students adequate direction...
...fact, their very first attempt to man Salyut 6 was an embarrassing flop. A week after it was sent aloft in September with no one on board, Soyuz 25 tried to link up with it, apparently as part of the Kremlin's celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution and the 20th anniversary of the flight of the first earth satellite, Sputnik. But Soyuz 25 slammed into one of Salyut's two docking ports, holding only briefly and then drifting away. Soviet controllers had to summon the cosmonauts back to earth...