Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Phoenix officials said they plan to make the Providence move by the spring in an attempt to corner what they see as an open advertising market for an arts and news weekly...
...much that Harvard relies on graduate students to teach, but rather that it does so in an uncoordinated way. Heavy use of TFs--unlike the rest of the curriculum--is not a carefully-planned, thoroughly-discussed element of the University's educational strategy. Instead, it is an attempt to improvise in response to immediate needs. The trouble is, this improvisation has become a permanent part of Harvard University's repertoire...
Abruptly, a few dozen pages in, the narrative lurches from Miller's first boyish attempt at running away from home to his walking through Harlem streets nearly half a century later. The process of orderly causality deliberately begins to crumble. Thereafter, from paragraph to paragraph, Miller is a child, an old man, a college student, a rising Broadway star. He is in China, in Connecticut, along the Mob-dominated Brooklyn waterfront, making a movie in Nevada. Each story brings on the next before the first is quite concluded, in a fashion at times conversational, at times dramatically juxtaposed. Too often...
...pick his battles with the Congress carefully, recognizing that as a lame duck he has precious little political capital to spend. "If he goes to the mat on every issue, he is going to have more problems," Spencer says. Congressman Richard Cheney of Wyoming warns against any grandiose attempt to recapture the past glory of Reaganism. Says he: "In the old age of an Administration, you should lie back and enjoy...
...Marcos. The mutiny's chief blow, however, was struck at the President's almost blind faith that the democratic institutions she had restored would lead the country out of its economic and political morass. The relative serenity of her first few months in power was, after Honasan's coup attempt, reinterpreted as weakness...