Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some fans speculate that Kush's firing may be part of a university attempt to settle out of court with an apology and token damages for Rutledge. But an influential group of Sun Devils boosters, the Sun Angels, loudly demanded that Kush be reinstated and Athletic Director Miller suspended...
...leader of the Justice Party. Last week, in a routine that has now become alarmingly familiar, Premier Ecevit's government was forced to step down after losing its majority in a by-election for five seats in the lower house of parliament. Demirel, his arch rival, will now attempt to try to form a new government...
People will interpret the question as an attempt to restrict Harvard expansion, she added. "They'll get an anti-Harvard contingent to vote for it, then beat us over the head with it," she said. "We've gotten people to write to city councilors, and they don't like it much...
...troubles. Though Communist Leader Georges Marchais has said, "I'm ready to unite with the devil to checkmate the Giscard-Barre policy," he and Socialist Chief François Mitterrand are bedeviled by a problem: they are not even on speaking terms. There has been no attempt by either man to patch up the bitter ideological split that destroyed their chances of winning last year's legislative elections. Jacques Chirac, the ambitious Paris mayor and neo-Gaullist leader who hopes to challenge Giscard in the 1981 presidential election, has not yet recovered from his party's drubbing...
...women's issue noted, "we had hoped for a miracle -that he wouldn't say anything." The Pope chose to delve into these controversies, in part, because he was under heavy pressure from the majority of American bishops to lend his popularity and publicity to their attempt to back unpopular church teachings...