Word: attempted
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Harvard has also tried to stymie the dining hall workers' union. Last year officials tried to hire non-union labor at the Faculty Club and forced workers at the Business School's Kresge dining hall into a different bargaining unit after hiring Marriott to run the cafeteria. Harvard's attempt to defeat the patrolmen's union is just the latest in a series of wrongheaded efforts to subvert unions...
Roby says he intends to push the ball up thefloor and apply sustained pressure on defense inan attempt to maximize what he sees as the cagers'greatest relative strength: depth...
...family and considered by some to be just as tough as, if not tougher than, convicted Boss Salerno. One of the few veterans not under indictment, he was acquitted of trying to kill Mob Boss Frank Costello in 1957 when Costello, who retired after the rub-out attempt, refused to identify him as one of his attackers...
...acknowledge that the terrorist threat to their countries cannot be solved without a concerted effort. The day after Besse's murder, French Interior Minister Pasqua and his West German counterpart, Friedrich Zimmermann, agreed in a two-hour meeting to begin exchanging members of their antiterrorist liaison teams in an attempt to develop a regular flow of information between the two countries...
...Britain immediately spurned the cease-fire proposal as an attempt to gain at the bargaining table what could not be won in combat. The response of Argentine President Raul Alfonsin: "We are still seeing the intransigence and the obstinacy of the government of Britain...