Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Commitment to a program to spur business investment. It would include an attempt to reduce uncertainties about future Government regulations-for instance, pollution-control standards -that are delaying capital projects, as well as renewed pledges that the Administration's tax reform proposals next fall will contain investment incentives...
...inflation, and do as much as you can to slow it down." The program will not be quite as voluntary as the Administration would have businessmen believe, and may not be as effective as Carter hopes. But it does have the virtue of avoiding formal controls, and the new attempt to see that the Government does not add unnecessarily to business's cost is a sign of progress...
...long-legged Tiger managed to win the long and triple jumps in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid embarrassment for his team...
...record 2:09.55, will join the chase as well as last year's winner, Jack Fultz, a 28-year-old Georgetown graduate from Franklin Park, Pa. (Fultz's time: 2:20.19). 1976 female champ Kim Merritt (2:47.10), who was hospitalized for exhaustion after her victory, will attempt to repeat her win without any of last year's side effects. And 1974 victor Neil Cusak will lead a group of Irish runners (Mick Molloy, Danny McDavid, Jim McNamara) in this star-studded field. Others to watch include Tom Fleming of Bloomfield, N.J., who twice has finished second, Mexico's Mario...
Field does not attempt to give pragmatic justifications for astronomy, although he does credit astronomy with starting the industrial revolution. He says astronomy provided the realization you could predict natural events--it offered "a few equations that had fantastic implications." But Field chiefly justifies the Center's work in romantic terms: "First and foremost, astronomy is an adventure--an intellectual adventure, but also an aesthetic adventure. Everyone can participate in one way or another." Field says, "Humanity loves astronomy--it's the wonder aspect. People don't wonder about bacteria, or the structure of the nucleus. It's a very...