Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told Parliament there was conclusive evidence of official Syrian involvement in the "monstrous and inhumane" attempt to sabotage the El Al flight to Tel Aviv and kill the 375 people aboard...
...United States Constitution provides that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for any office..." Neither the New Republic nor Pat Robertson are bound by the Constitution. But Martin Peretz's attempt to "excommunicate" George Bachrach--from the Eighth District and from his Jewish heritage--will make it just a bit easier for the religious right to achieve its goal of undercutting that important charter of religious and non-religious liberty...
...fooled. Proposition 1 is not about taxes, and it is not about the state's moral neutrality. It is about social control, oppression of low-income people and the New Right's attempt to throw women back into the kitchen and the bedroom. Kim Ladin...
...response to Bennett, Bok asserted that the secretary had failed to understand the problems of higher education in America, and that his solutions were simplistic. The president pointed to surveys, studies and workshops which attempt to address serious problems in education. Yet despite his efforts, our administrative leader has yet to remedy the educational gaps here at Harvard...
...addition, Brophy recommended that Americans take a greater interest in education and the productivity of the work force, while labor and management must attempt to reestablish the work ethic...