Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fund, which is a "make-it-or-break-it" factor in the Faculty's attempt to balance the budget, prevented next year's tuition, room and board hike from being even steeper than the proposed $475 increase, Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean for financial affairs, said earlier this month...
Washington would have been proud, but for the Harvard polo team it was just another futile attempt at victory as Valley Forge Military Academy charged through the Crimson horsemen, 19-2, Sunday in Pennsylvania...
...each of his stops, his approach was basically the same -except for Lebanon, where he concentrated almost exclusively on the internal problems of that war-torn country. In Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, he was the persistent interlocutor, running through his list of prepared questions in an attempt to discover new subtleties in the Arab and Israeli positions. How much occupied territory, for example, should Israel relinquish? When and how ought the Geneva talks to be reconvened? What role should the United Nations play? What about the Palestinians' participation at the talks and the shape...
...away-and the Vietnamese now indicate the demand is negotiable. Washington, in turn, seems almost ready to accept the fact that the fate of most of the M.I.A.s will never be known. Beyond lowering its voice about the M.I.A.s, the U.S. will almost certainly refrain from blocking a new attempt to seat Hanoi in the U.N. Another early move could be to drop the existing trade embargo against Viet Nam, a measure passed by Congress last year but vetoed by Ford...
...that Archbishop Luwum and the two ministers would ever get. Next day, Radio Uganda reported that the prisoners had been killed when the car transporting them to an interrogation center collided with another vehicle and overturned; the victims, said the broadcast, had tried to overpower the driver in an attempt to escape...