Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University last week proposed a complex multi-million dollar fund for commercializing its professors' discoveries in what amounts to an attempt to build a better mousetrap. Under several arrangements, Harvard is trying raise $35 million to organize companies that would develop faculty research, with the University receiving 10 percent of the profits...
...pour forth: "This manuscript is steeped in the nice-guy side . . . Where's the anger . . . And where's the hubris, by the way?" The answer, of course, is that they are all here, if not conveyed by Roth directly then underlined afterward by his fictional counterpart. Despite its sincere attempt to set the record straight, The Facts inevitably shades into fiction. Roth is worth reading not for what happened to him but for what he made of it. And this odd, unexpected book is one of his happier creations...
Since the Ayatullah Khomeini came to power a decade ago, Iran's stampmakers have made a habit of tweaking the American eagle's beak. One issue depicted the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, another the abortive 1980 attempt by an American rescue team to free the hostages. Iran has a new addition to its philatelic collection: a stamp illustrating July's shootdown of an Iranian airliner by a U.S. warship. One such stamp came in the mail this month to International Pressure Service, a maker of high-tech aerospace equipment based in Urbana, Ohio. Inappropriately enough, the envelope...
...John Paul II. In a highly unusual private dinner with the author, the Pope confided that he "could sense" his own election near the beginning of 1978's second conclave. Wynn's most provocative assertion: the Vatican at the "highest level" believes that the Soviet Union engineered the 1981 attempt on John Paul's life in order to deprive the restive Poles of their leading symbol of national identity...
...dreary student performance in reading, writing and critical thinking. So ill equipped is the current crop of high school graduates that U.S. corporations spend $25 billion a year for remedial * training programs for new employees on whom state, local and federal agencies have already lavished $130 billion in an attempt to teach them to read, write and cipher...