Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joan Bok's letter, which was mailed to alumni along with the overseers ballots, has prompted widespread protest from alumni who have criticized it as an inappropriate attempt to influence the election's outcome. The Harvard administration staunchly opposes divestment from companies doing business in South Africa...
...once the national women's movement gathered steam, the Radcliffe Class of 1961 joined the bandwagon. Fully 81 percent of the alumnae who responded to a recent 25th reunion poll said that the attempt to pass an Equal Rights Amendment and the women's movement had affected them personally...
...Jewett's first year comes to a close he must be wondering about a lot of the seemingly inexplicable events that happened: the sudden appearance of several new campus publications this spring; the K-school's award to an undistinguished attorney general; a contra's aborted speech attempt and subsequent half-baked success; Derek Bok's unfair electioneering in the Board of Overseers elections...
...have played a role in recent terrorist attacks in Europe and the Mediterranean, even though in the past the Assad government has consistently deplored such assaults against civilians. The charges, pressed by the Israelis but confirmed in some particulars by some Western intelligence agencies, link Syria with the recent attempt by a Jordanian-born Palestinian to plant a bomb aboard a London-Tel Aviv El Al flight with 360 passengers aboard. Evidence also surfaced that could tie the Syrians to a West Berlin explosion that destroyed the German-Arab Friendship Society, and possibly to a subsequent blast at La Belle...
...well known to colleagues, his hospital and insurers. A peer review five years ago confirmed that dozens of his implants were unnecessary and had put patients in needless danger. But not until this year, when he was convicted for taking kickbacks from pacemaker manufacturers, did the medical board attempt to slow Balasco's pace...