Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Higher education lobbyists--longtime antagonists of Bennett--vigorously opposed the plan, saying it was another Reagan attempt to hurt colleges and universities...
Following the student activism of the late1960s, the University decided to increase thefunding for house activities in an attempt to makethe houses more appealing. The house masters nowshare $98,654 from a special endowment fund,$289,860 from a "house fund," and $220,000 forhouse libraries, Gefter says. The money is dividedon the basis of house populations, Gefter says,except the Quad houses, which have use of HillesLibrary, receive a smaller proportion of thelibrary fund...
...only other attempt to create a referendumwas an attack on the city rent control system,which also failed to reach the ballot because itssponsor, realtor Fred Meyer, did not collectenough petition signatures. If passed, it wouldhave allowed rent control landlords to sell unitsto tenants of three years or more.City Councilor ALFRED E. VELLUCCI...
...news, saying it must first obtain requisite permits. The Sandinistas also suspended a six-week-old visitors' program with Costa Rica after more than 1,200 Nicaraguans failed to return home from cross-border visits with relatives. Some skeptics wondered if such measures might signal the beginning of an attempt to slow the pace of reforms called for in the Guatemala plan...
...medical problems could become the subject of a legal dispute this week when the former White House assistant goes on trial in U.S. district court on five charges of perjury. Lawyers spent much of last week interviewing prospective jurors about their attitudes toward alcohol, indicating that the defense may attempt to use Deaver's addiction to exonerate...