Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...realize that my confidence was premature. Government agencies continue to threaten news organizations that publish information known to everyone, including bitter adversaries, but the American people. Certain women strive to ban, as violations of their civil rights, portrayals of members of their sex that they find insulting. People who attempt to restrict what others are allowed to read do not imagine themselves as enemies of Democracy. I must allow that they pay ideas the backhanded tribute of fearing their power. But the proper antidote to obnoxious or wicked concepts is exposure, not suppression. The urge to censor betrays a disregard...
...could just be true. Because behind the doors on the eighth floor of Allen-Bradley's good gray corporate headquarters near downtown Milwaukee is an operation that may signal a renaissance in U.S. manufacturing. Department 260, as it is known, is the company's innovative and expensive ($15 million) attempt to make its popular lines of sturdy industrial-control devices better and cheaper than those of competing companies in the U.S., Western Europe and Japan...
...Washington, officials dismissed the accusations as "trumped-up charges" and a "malicious disinformation campaign" and concluded that Urban's account was a "self-serving attempt to lay the blame for martial law in Poland somewhere else." They admitted that the Administration had received "conflicting reports" on the pre-martial-law climate from several sources but had not known definitely whether, or when, the crackdown would take place. Further, one intelligence source said, any action would have jeopardized Kuklinski's life, impaired future intelligence-gathering capabilities in Poland and had no effect on the Polish government's chosen course of action...
...many unlikely categories, including the logical selection of former Pitcher Don Mossi as the ugliest major leaguer of all time. Along the way, James explains why insulting nicknames, like that of Hugh ("Losing Pitcher") Mulcahy, tended to disappear in the '40s, how the coach's box evolved as an attempt to reduce violence in the days when baseball was a blood sport, and why the fatal beaning of Ray Chapman in 1920 may have done more than Babe Ruth to usher in the modern long-ball era. (Because of Chapman's death, the owners replaced the traditionally scuffed, dirty baseballs...
...East Germans insisted that the policy was intended to crack down on suspected terrorists. The Western powers, however, concluded that the ploy was a new attempt by the Soviet-backed East Germans to alter the unique post-World War II status of Berlin. In the past, foreign diplomats entering or leaving the East sector of the city had only to flash a red identity card issued by the East Germans. By requiring passports rather than cards, the East Germans apparently hoped to establish that the Berlin Wall is an international border --in direct contravention of postwar agreements...