Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...without any of the information that is known about the epidemiology of the disease, information which was dispensed in liberal proportion at the SHAC forum and unfortunately omitted entirely from the Crimson article, that "social concern" is more likely to be translated into hysteria than into any constructive attempt at AIDS prevention...
...book's conclusion is a brief attempt to draw theoretical lessons from the experiences it recounts. It is entertaining and meaningful when Berger presents a utopian vision of a once decaying and polluted industrial city that has cleaned itself up and now exists in equilibrium with the environment...
...Grossman's recent article, "Think Hard", concerning the moral implications of joining the final clubs, is unfair in that he uses false information in trying to blame the problems of society on such clubs. Rather than attempt to construct a realistic argument against their existence, he has adopted a radical, emotionally-fired argument blaming them for "the fires of prejudice and aristocratic elitism" which exist in American society...
...Gramm-Rudman as an opportunity for artificial climate control: The automatic cuts will come into play only if revenues do not increase, either through new taxes or a growing economy. Others, however, undoubtedly mean what the bill says: they want vast cuts, soon, and they could very well attempt to block any tax hikes for precisely that reason...
...oppose Gramm-Rudman and any other attempt to write the balanced budget into law, not because we disagree with the goals of such a plan, but because such bills say nothing about the method through which those goals will be achieved. Both the increased power of the President under the bill, which may include a "line-item veto" provision, and the possibility that many valuable programs will be needlessly cut, are unacceptable...