Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communist Party and Army Chief of Staff. Although he ranks only third in the Peking Politburo (after Hua and ailing Marshal Yeh Chien-ying, 80, the figurehead Chief of State), Teng is the principal architect of what has become known in Chinese rhetoric as the Four Modernizations?an attempt simultaneously to improve agriculture, industry, science and technology, and defense. Because of the tremendous enterprise he has launched to propel the nation into the modern world, Teng Hsiao-p'ing (pronounced dung sheow ping) is TIME'S Man of the Year...
...widely a company's stock is held, the more clout it has; AT&T's nearly 3 million shareholders, for example, constitute a powerful lobby. IBM could use support from more than the 579,384 shareholders it now has as it fights the Justice Department's attempt to split it up and moves into the heavily regulated field of satellite communications...
...subject is hard to please. The first official portrait of Henry Kissinger, painted by Boston Artist Gardner Cox and commissioned to hang in the State Department, was vetoed: Kissinger did not like it. He was pleased, however, by a second attempt, by Houston Artist J. Anthony Wills. "It's an excellent likeness, swelled head and all," pronounced Kissinger last week. He didn't even mind that Wills had "painted out the scepter." In fact, quipped the former Secretary of State, the unveiling was "one of my most fulfilling moments. Until they do Mount Rushmore." Artist Wills, too, felt...
...wanted to say something about the drug culture, opened in August and died in the marketplace within two months. Audiences also wisely avoided Sylvester Stallone's F.I.S.T., a tedious fictionalization of the life of Jimmy Hoffa, and were almost as wary of Paradise Alley, Stallone's futile attempt to re-create sweaty 1940s realism. Convoy, Ali MacGraw's comeback vehicle, did not get rolling, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which had all the energy of a wilting lily, never managed to strike up a tune...
...major speech this fall Neto declared, "We are not going to be so radical ... We are not going to attempt, as some comrades do, to get rid of the private sector ... The private enterprise of farmers, small businessmen, masons and carpenters is an important facet of production which we need in the country...