Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political empowerment. Turmoil marked his 4 1/2 years in city hall, as he fought to consolidate his political control over a city evenly divided between blacks and whites. After winning a bitter, racially tinged election in 1983, Washington told rejoicing black supporters, "It's our turn now." But his attempt to take charge of the city hall machinery was frustrated for three years by die-hard opposition from the city council's white majority, led by the mayor's archenemy, Edward R. Vrdolyak...
...patients provide Margaret with the excitement which is completely missing from her own life. In an attempt to save one of them, she seeks out Mike, the loan shark who is threatening him. Mike is a slick, charming con man, played with great, seedy elan by Joe Mantegna. He shows her some of the tricks of the con man trade, and for the first time in the movie we see Margaret shed her stiff exterior and smile...
After Rice Coach Linda Tucker called a timeout in an attempt to ice Keffer, the scrappy guard stepped up to the line and sank both shots, sending the crowd of 100 to their feet and the Crimson to its fourth consecutive victory...
...Straightedge is an attempt to reconsider values in a sort of untheoretical way, in a narcissistic and indulgent society, to try build a different world, one that's not derived from MTV," says William J. Whelan '88, a Social Studies major doing his thesis on "Music Subcultures in the United States." Whelan describes himself as an ex-punk...
...CFIA decided to implement an exchange program after it was approached by the Citizen Exchange Committee (CEC), a national group that pairs American and Soviet universities in an attempt to put "real people here in touch with real people there," said CFIA Student Council President Hyungji Park...