Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Duplicity lay at the heart of both our modern political tragedies-Viet Nam and Watergate. It came in many forms. There was Richard Nixon's audacious attempt to fool 70 million television viewers about his role in the political scandal, and there was Lyndon Johnson's budgetary sleight of hand to disguise $10 billion in war costs. In between there were fibs and fudges, convenient losses of memory, tampering with records, feigned confusion and phony definitions of words and phrases. One way or another, it was all designed to obscure the truth. One way or another...
...that has been impoverished by his greed and mismanagement. The economy is nearly bankrupt, 50% of the labor force is unemployed, and most of the islanders live at subsistence level. Last week Bishop's government was planning to establish farming cooperatives and to seek foreign aid in an attempt to repair the damage...
Barre's steel measures are part of what has been dubbed "the new French revolution." That is the Premier's attempt to reduce the government's traditionally massive interference in the country's economic affairs. Though railways, utilities and many industries have long been nationalized, Barre is insisting that state-owned companies turn a profit. His model: West Germany's free-enterprise-oriented economy. Barre's government has already dismantled an archaic system of price controls that contributed to inflation because it eliminated incentives to lower prices in a competitive market. Now the Premier...
...former Prime Minister (now State President) John Vorster clandestinely-and illegally-poured some $37 million into an avidly pro-government tabloid, The Citizen. In the U.S., according to stories published by the Rand Daily Mail of Johannesburg, the slush fund was used to finance an equally illegal but unsuccessful attempt in 1974 to purchase the Washington Star, some four years before the paper was sold to Time...
...Rafshoon" has become a Washington verb for image gilding; yet, it is hard to quarrel with an Administration attempt to get its act together and speak with one voice. Carter's problem has been more acute than most, since he for so long naively or generously let people like U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and now deposed White House Aide Midge Costanza pop off at will...