Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duehay said he hopes to avoid many of the problems that scuttled the previous attempt to bring linkage to Cambridge by involving as many groups as possible in formulating the proposal...
...above a one-time dialogue with their student constituency. At a minimum, such a meeting would be a gesture of good faith--a gesture that would show that Bok's appearance last spring at a question-answer session on divestment was a step toward dialogue, not an isolated attempt to appease student concerns...
RECENTLY IT WAS revealed that, in an attempt to free American hostages held in Lebanon, the United States government arranged arm shipments to Iran. To many observers this may come as something of a surprise...
...Coalition, one of several groups directing the petition drive, recently enlisted the aid of several Harvard affiliates in an attempt to garner support from the Harvard community...
...vote was a victory for Sinn Fein's president, Gerry Adams, 38, who had argued that electoral participation is the "only feasible way out of our isolation." Some 130 hard-core "abstentionists," however, promptly formed a breakaway group. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald called the party's attempt to hold public office "an abuse of the democratic system...