Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge couple's attempt to keep people from parking in their driveway across from Hilles Library resulted in the theft of their gate this weekend...
GBUH President Savina Martin said the Leadership Training Program--which will last eight weeks--is an attempt to "empower the homeless." The program gives homeless people intensive training in organizing their peers for political ends and teaches them to carry out self-help programs in the shelters where they live, Martin said...
Washington waged war on poverty among the elderly through two programs that helped rich and poor alike. Congress created Medicare insurance in 1965. In 1972 it voted a 20% increase in Social Security benefits and linked them to the Consumer Price Index in an attempt to safeguard retirees from the double- digit inflation that was devastating young families. In 1980 alone, payments increased a record 14.3%. Now each month 91% of those 65 and over receive benefits totaling $13.6 billion. The percentage of elderly people living below the poverty line has been cut from...
...P.I.O. is accused of engaging in nothing worse than propaganda. Far from even endorsing terrorism, its chief function has been to attempt to change the subject. Its staff was entirely made up of U.S. citizens and legal residents. It was registered as a foreign agent, like other lobbying offices in Washington, but the honor of being designated as a foreign mission came unsolicited...
What made Watkins' case different, said the judges, was that he was charged only with being gay, not with a specific act of sodomy. Wrote Norris: "Any attempt to criminalize the status of an individual's sexual orientation would present grave constitutional problems." Watkins has never denied his orientation. The son of a career Army man, he admitted "homosexual tendencies" when he enlisted in 1967, at 19. Later he worked during off-duty hours, with his commander's permission, as a female impersonator. In his job rating, he was regularly praised for spit-shined professionalism. Although previous investigations had upheld...