Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...various times the Greeks have tried to lift at least part of the burden. In the 1950s the government launched a privately subscribed fund drive to provide dowries for poor girls. Although the latest reform attempt is more sweeping than any other, it is still unlikely to drive dowries out of Greek life in anything but the formal sense. Says Professor Andrew Gazis, chairman of the government committee drafting the antidowry bill: "Customs are deep within our country's soul. There will be no way to stop a father from offering a daughter a gift when she marries...
...control between two strong-willed personalities: W. Maxey Jarman and his son Franklin. In the end both lost. Four years ago, Franklin, now 45, ousted his father as company head and set about stripping Genesco of unprofitable businesses that Maxey had acquired in an unsuccessful attempt to expand sales to $2 billion a year. (They are about half that now.) Then, last week, Franklin himself was bounced in a coup organized over the New Year's holiday by his two chief subordinates and four outside directors (Maxey, now 72 and no longer a director, apparently took no part...
...issued a call to the full board to meet in special session the next day at Genesco's Nashville headquarters. In a session that lasted more than ten hours, the board voted to strip Franklin Jarman of his executive responsibilities. Franklin, after a futile attempt to resist, voted philosophically for his own demotion; afterward, associates described him as being "in a state of shock." Who eventually may succeed him is impossible to guess now, but his temporary replacement, Blackie, has already earned at least a footnote in the company's history. He is the first Genesco chief executive...
...owner of the city's only afternoon paper, the Post (circ. 500,000), than he was making a surprise bid to buy control of the New York Magazine Co. New York Founding Editor Clay Felker, meanwhile, canvassed millionaires around the world for help in fighting the takeover attempt, and even asked the Justice Department to examine the antitrust implications of the whole affair. After a pageant of dramatic late-night board meetings and a spirited ballet of lawyers swirling into court, however, New York magazine finally got a new master?and America a new press lord...
...daughter, Prudence, 18, from a first marriage and three children, Elisabeth, 8, Lachlan, 5, and James, 4, by his wife Anna, 32, a stunningly attractive, quick-witted former Sydney Daily Mirror reporter, whom he married in 1967. Six years ago, in London, Anna was the target of a kidnap attempt in which the wife of a Murdoch lieutenant was murdered. Murdoch did not stop his plebeian practice of taking the subway to work every day, but he hired bodyguards...