Word: attempted
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...labor at Harvard, says Bozzotto. In order to run its eating establishments more efficiently, Harvard has in the past two years contracted out both the Faculty Club and Kresge Hall, the Business School dining hall. The change in management has threatened jobs in both places, and the union will attempt to revise the contract so as to assure jobs and the continuation of Harvard benefits to workers after a change in management...
...Boks' letter represents an attempt to tip the election away from the three pro-divestment candidates who gained spots on the ballot by petition and toward their competition, which the University invited to run. Harvard--more accurately Derek Bok--either believes the "Company of Educated Men and Women" need to be told how to exercise their franchise or that Harvard has failed in its educational mission...
...announcement of Safran's defeat comes amid speculation that he may be contemplating departing Harvard. According to a source close to the professor, Safran has abandoned an attempt to win a temporary appointment at a University in France and is currently negotiating with the University of California at San Diego to teach there next year...
Such charges have inevitably followed successful women and probably will until female bosses outnumber males. Goldberg makes a halfhearted attempt to portray Bourke-White as a feminist heroine, but concedes "she often acted in ways no self-respecting feminist could approve." Indeed. Impediments to her work regularly aroused hysterics and tears. When Author Erskine Caldwell decided that he did not want to continue collaborating with her on a book about the South, she "raped him," according to Caldwell's agent. (The collaborators were later married and divorced.) One of Bourke-White's long- suffering secretaries came to regard her boss...
...suddenly became the Invisible Man. Not that anyone actually failed to see him, or to guess what he was carrying in a manila envelope decorated with the White House seal. With Saunders in plain view, Majority Leader Robert Dole archly informed fellow Senators that Ronald Reagan had vetoed an attempt by Congress to block a sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, and * "somewhere there is a messenger who has that information." But the moment Saunders' presence was officially acknowledged, the veto would become the pending business of the Senate, forcing some sort of action. So for 2 1/2 hours, Saunders...