Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jobless rate of 5.5%, up nearly one-half of 1% from 1977. Worst of all, it warns that the pattern of slow growth and high unemployment could become permanent for the world's industrial democracies, especially if governments throw up more protectionist barriers to trade in an attempt to save jobs...
...quick reflexes while chalking up 30 saves. The 5'8" goaltender, who was in the nets for Harvard's 4-3 victory over Notre Dame and in the 3-2 overtime defeat at the hands of number-one ranked Denver, foiled Clarkson's Dan Makuch on a breakaway scoring attempt in the second period...
...make no contribution. The Soviet Union has nothing to lose from a peaceful solution; indeed, a normalized Middle East should enable all countries to pursue their global policies on the basis of equality. If the Soviet Union encourages intransigence, the motive must be either hurt vanity or an attempt to foster tensions and to improve the opportunities for Soviet penetration. There is no reason to assuage the former, and it is in the interests of all nations to resist the latter...
...time the ministers' jets landed in Caracas, the freeze of early '78 was virtually set. In his speech to the opening conference, Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez made a last desperate attempt to obtain a small increase. He offered a quixotic proposal "for the good of humanity": prices would be increased 5% to 8%, but OPEC's additional profits for one year would be channeled to developing countries that have no oil to help them pay off their $180 billion foreign debt. During a series of bilateral meetings with the ministers the first day of the conference...
...light of all this, there is something brave, if conceivably self-destructive about Telefon, which might have been subtitled 'The Last Spy Picture Show." Its creators do not attempt to palm off their Manchurian Candidate plot as something ripped from today's flaming headlines. The gimmick- a group of Russian deep-cover agents in the U.S. are mind-conditioned to sabotage military targets when they get a phone call repeating a triggering phrase- is seen from the start as a forgotten pre-détente plot that an unreconstructed cold warrior (Donald Pleasence) manages...