Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then House majority leader, threatened in 1986 to block legislation injecting desperately needed cash into the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the agency that insures depositors in thrift institutions, until one regulatory case was decided to his satisfaction. If true -- and Wright denies it -- such an attempt to hold up urgent legislation would constitute a blatant abuse of his office...
These three men--particularly Sharpton, an overweight, publicity-hound with a James Brown/Don King hairdo--like to point out that the police will arrest Mrs. Brawley, but won't attempt to arrest anyone in connection with her daughter's abduction. To them, this is indicative of the collapse of the justice system for Blacks...
...passage of time, however, has made Peter (and Daddy) into easy and common targets. It's not surprising these days to see a condemnation of Yuppies, which is what Peter is, 1950s-style. Also outdated are Jerry's use of the word "colored" instead of "Black" and his attempt to shock Peter with a brief and sketchy account of the single homosexual experience of his youth. If Peter stood for the values of the play's original audiences, he does no longer, and the things Jerry says that make him fidget in his seat do not necessarily make...
Educators have been fretting for years about the state of math instruction in American public schools. In one attempt to get students on track, Congress in 1965 passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, sending a back-to- basics message that it hoped would improve achievement in math and other subjects. Last week the results of such efforts were totted up in a newly released study titled The Mathematics Report Card -- Are We Measuring Up? Its assessment of the performance of U.S. high school students in 1986: "Dismal...
...Mason, 42, have busied themselves in New York cases with controversial racial implications. They represented the black victims attacked by white youths in the notorious Howard Beach case, and Mason defended one of the black teenagers shot by Subway Vigilante Bernhard Goetz. At every opportunity, the two lawyers attempt to put the justice system itself on trial. Says Columbia University Law Professor Gerard E. Lynch: "Mason, whom I know, and Maddox, from what I've read, see the judicial system as fundamentally unjust and racist, and that's the key to their strategy and tactics." Maddox said much the same...