Word: attempted
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...world and, indeed, in history. But Japan and Europe have rehabilitated themselves and are now eroding American economic strength, while the United States has expanded its overseas commitments and wasted its resources in fruitless wars. The senselessly gargantuan Pentagon budgets of the 1980s are testament to America's desparate attempt to maintain a hegemony that can no longer exist...
This was an attempt to sway overseers from voting to recommend that Harvard divest of its holdings in companies that do business in South Africa. The Board is elected by alumni to represent them, and advises the Corporation mainly through its visiting committees which evaluate the University. The Corporation's sudden interest in governance shows its concern over the Board's movement toward an activist role in the University...
...MacInnis was credited with an unassisted goal to get Northeastern on the scoreboard just 2:49 into the game, as he pushed Terrier goalie Peter Fish's clearing attempt into...
...what comes afterward. Reviewing the Kennedy- Nixon debates reveals that Kennedy was almost as nervous and stilted as Nixon. In the end, the benefit Bush can draw from his tangle with Rather will depend on whether viewers recall it as a moment of justified indignation or as a peevish attempt to avoid coming to terms with the Iran-contra affair. It could go either way, for in fact it was both...
...Texaco's biggest shareholder, Icahn controls 14.8% of the nation's third largest oil firm (after Exxon and Mobil). Nevertheless, Texaco has blocked his attempts to play a direct role in planning the reorganization. The company's proposal, which Schwartzberg approved last week, must now be accepted by Texaco stockholders. Icahn says he may team up with other investors to acquire a larger stake in the firm, and may also attempt to put his own hand-picked directors on the Texaco board...