Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students now attempt to "evolve some meaning in their lives," while in the past they came to UHS about "what to do with relationships in trouble, or how to get into the college scene," Catlin said...
Perry said the increased use of counseling may in part be "an attempt to get one's money's worth." Students appreciate the value of consultations and use the services more, he added...
...special dividend the $1.2 billion in cash and securities that it got from the sale of Peabody Coal last June; others had hoped that the cash-rich but troubled copper company, which lost $22 million in the last quarter, would itself become the target of a takeover attempt involving a generous tender offer...
...same agribiz octopus that chased him away from home, and talking more like this than like thay-uht. He's not a hero, but he's a gifted survivor and a natural-born fink. In return for forgetting what he knows of an assassination attempt by a company thug on the union leader, Leroy is promoted to foreman, and he loses touch with his worker friends in La Causa as quickly as he lost his accent...
...that marriage is becoming chic again, Zero Population Growth, the group that worries about overcrowding the planet, has launched a pre-emptive counterattack. The November issue of the ZPG National Reporter runs a list of "exceptional" only children in an attempt to bolster the argument of some psychologists that "onlies" tend to do better in life than those folks distracted by sibling rivalries. The compendium is impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley...