Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was clearly shown, Shawcross writes, by the five years of destruction that followed Sihanouk's ouster, a destruction that Shawcross condemns as an excessive attempt to display U.S. strength in the area...
...suggestions were seen as an effort to fill positions for which there are not enough blacks and an attempt to assuage criticism of the nation's racial policies...
...abrupt change in policy on Rhodesia. The Commonwealth Prime Ministers are scheduled to meet in Zambia later this year. If the African members should still be angry with Mrs. Thatcher at that time, they could embarrass her greatly by deciding upon some kind of retaliation, such as an attempt to expel Britain from the British Commonwealth...
PRESIDENT CARTER'S new energy proposals, calling for the gradual decontrol of domestic oil prices and a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, represent a timid, incomplete attempt to resolve the nation's energy problems. Carter has surveyed the sorry state of energy supplies in America, concluding that higher oil prices under decontrol will force conservation, increase production and make alternative energy technologies more price competitive...
...defense, captain Dave Maloney (yes. Don's brother) will attempt to keep the Rangers young defense in line with positional play. And goalie John Davidson has been just fine. Nick Fotiu is in charge of fights...