Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inhale deeply and, rolling their eyes to the ceiling and fluttering their hands in the vicinity of their heads, attempt to crowd aside so that the one woman, in the fragility of her gender, may exit first, followed by eight men and their dense exhalation of martini fumes. b) Since the sex of the passengers is irrelevant here, everyone leaves the elevator in the most efficient and logical order, the men nearest the door departing first. As some people of both sexes are still uncomfortable with such uncourtly procedures, a man may put them at their ease by making...
Often the newer agencies are headed by enthusiasts who see a mission to push new rules without regard to price. As a result, they have made little attempt to apply the most elementary cost-benefit analyses. Cheaper solutions that could achieve the same ends or almost the same ends have been ignored in favor of overkill. America has just not got value for money from its red-tape spending spree...
Only Stallone's mother will forgive him for Paradise Alley. The movie has all the flaws of Rocky--the truisms, the sentimentality that could make a soap-opera addict squirm--and none of its strengths. The innocence has been replaced by a blatant attempt to cash in on Rocky's success. Rocky has gone Hollywood...
Things cooled off for a while, until Dartmouth parlayed a holding penalty on Jack Hughes into the 3-0 margin. With 25 seconds to go in the man-up situation, Dartmouth mounted one last attack. Lau stopped Dennis Murphy's attempt from the left face-off circle, but center Mark Bedard was there to nail home the rebound...
Kennedy's proposals present a serious attempt to answer some of these difficulties, partly be redistributing resources to provede a better service to all. His scheme is based largely on the existing Canadian system rather than the European models. Yet much of the underlying philosophy is similar. In practice the U.S. would have 30 years of European experience to learn from. On the basis of this they could probably make a national health insurance scheme work better and avoid some of the problems encountered by the NHS. It needs only sufficient political will for these measures to be introduced. Kennedy...