Word: attempted
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Next week as the House of Representatives again considers the current Aged Incumbent's request to give $100 million to forces trying to topple a regime he cannot stand, lawmakers would do well to contemplate the lessons of President Wilson's attempt to overthrow a government he personally despised...
Natsios' refusal to step down upon announcing opened the door for forces in the Republican party dissatisfied with Natsios' leadership, led by former Senatorial candidate Ray Shamie and Joseph D. Malone, manager of the Shamie Foundation, to initiate their attempt to unseat Natsios in favor of Malone. Malone said he didn't consider the idea of a motion to unseat Natsios in the 80-member GOP state committee...
...Week by going to the beach, apparently unconcerned about the battle raging along the Honduran border. Nor did the President of Honduras, Jose Azcona Hoyo, seem overly concerned that his country was being invaded. He too went to the seashore for a vacation. For that matter, Reagan made no attempt to maintain a crisis atmosphere; at week's end he headed to his California ranch for Easter, stopping in New Orleans...
Drucker's article is an attempt to capture a number of fundamental changes that in his view have altered the global economy and created some startling paradoxes. Only a decade ago, he notes, the influential Club of Rome predicted that the world would suffer a desperate shortage of raw materials by 1985. Instead, resource markets are glutted and stockpiles are still growing despite the lowest prices for commodities since the Great Depression. Food supplies have likewise increased, in large part because of heavy subsidies for production and dramatic improvements in agricultural techniques. Only the Soviet Union among major nations needs...
Instead, the U.S. has shed blue-collar jobs -- 5 million since 1975 -- as it experienced an accelerated substitution of knowledge and capital for manual labor. Without such a substitution, Drucker argues, no modern nation can hope to remain competitive. Says he: "The attempt to preserve . . . blue-collar jobs is actually a prescription for unemployment...