Word: attempted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...depressed to continue college, but never brought up the subject again. Boston Psychoanalyst Don Lipsitt, who has known Dukakis for 25 years, says Dukakis talked about his brother's illness mostly in terms of the medication he was taking. To this day, Dukakis will not acknowledge Stelian's suicide attempt, although his mother confirms...
...some experts say that it overstates the degree of distress because a large number of those listed as out of work are people who are voluntarily moving from one job to another. According to this line of reasoning, 5.6% unemployment is actually close to "full employment," and any attempt to push the rate much lower will cause inflation to accelerate. Other analysts say the unemployment rate understates the problem because it does not include the so-called discouraged workers, who have given up looking...
...January to $13.8 billion in | February, only to plunge to $9.7 billion in March. Part of the reason for such swings is that trade flows vary according to seasonal patterns. When the Commerce Department announces the April figure next week, the number will be "seasonally adjusted" in an attempt to smooth out temporary fluctuations...
Tarver plans to spend the next year or two in Boston and on tour with the band, but he does not see himself headed for rock stardom. "It's not an attempt to try to make it in the music business," he says. "But I want to do it as well and as seriously as I can. Not being in school will give me a chance to concentrate on doing music really well...
...approximately 700 lectures and 70,000 pages later, my mind returns to Henry Adams. Adams was convinced that his education at Harvard--too rooted in present concerns--did not begin to prepare him for his later life. "The attempt of the American of 1800 to educate the American of 1900," he wrote, "had not often been surpassed for folly...The attempt of the American of 1900 to educate the American of 2000," he was equally convinced, "must be even blinder...