Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them, or "Spain in Our Hearts." During the Popular Unity government of Salvadore Allende, his verses were painted on thousands of walls throughout Chile. A spokesman for the left, Neruda always wrote for, and to, the people, all people. His poetry, and more recently his Memoirs, are Neruda's attempt to detail his apprenticeship to become the poet of his people...
...complained of constant increases in the cost of milk, meat and vegetables. While they suffered, the nation's remaining 10% prospered. The rich grew richer under President Anwar Sadat, who returned property sequestered by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser and made private investment easier in a vain attempt to persuade upper-class Egyptians to put their money into productive enterprises rather than real estate, which provides better returns...
Dean Fox's proposal to oust freshmen from the Quad is a scandalous attempt at wrecking one of the last alternative lifestyles at Harvard (is it paranoia, or do I detect the silhouette of the infamous 1-1-2 plan lurking at the sidelines, waiting for its cue?). The timing of the Administration's actions--reading and exam period securely bolting, or so they think, the doors to student concern and participation--epitomizes the slimy, macchiavellian, fetid, underhanded, unscrupulous and most questionable manner in which the Administration has traditionally managed to impose its bureaucratic wet-dreams upon the lives...
...executives are eying an arcane but potentially far-reaching bookkeeping innovation that will affect the size and shape of what business calls "profits." The Securities and Exchange Commission is now requiring large corporations to adopt a procedure called "replacement-cost accounting." The move represents a long-overdue attempt to clear away the distorting effects of inflation on a company's bottom line. The rule involves some tinkering with numbers that, if integrated into the corporate accounts, could cause a sharp downward jag in an earnings report...
...past these barriers, for it is a very good film, beautifully shot and edited, intelligently structured and - to risk what will surely seem at first a highly inappropriate term -charming. Yes, charming. For its makers have resisted the most common of the temptations visited upon journalists when they attempt to penetrate the small, half-hidden worlds of the strangely obsessed: they do not patronize and they do not satirize. Rather, for 85 minutes they report objectively, yet sympathetically, on a small group of dedicated people who have found happiness in the camaraderie of the gyms where they devote themselves...