Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touchdown, followed by a failed two-point conversion, was good enough for victory. Mather posed a threat in the second quarter when quarterback Mark Meredith ran 34 yards to the Adams 11-yd. line, but a wild snap on a fourth down conversion attempt foiled the drive...
...four-year-old, University-funded race relations body, formed after an unsuccessful attempt to establish a student Third World Center, awarded grants of up to $1200. It could not be determined yesterday how much each group received...
...more than an agency of the United States government. I admit that I have accepted government funds in the form of Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities grants. If I have been inconsistent, it is because it is difficult to draw lines in these matters. Nonetheless I must attempt to do so: the principle of the autonomy of academic inquiry is, I believe, seriously compromised by entangling it with the gathering of intelligence. You knew very well the quotation from Pirke Avoth warning scholars to seek no intimacy with ruling power. For myself, that is still a guiding principle...
...that Arafat not only had been aware of the hijack plot before it took place, but had been involved in the planning. Well before the EgyptAir interception took place, some diplomats and intelligence analysts had reached the conclusion that the Achille Lauro hijacking was in fact a bungled terrorist attempt to launch an attack on the Israeli harbor of Ashdod, using the cruise liner merely as transport. They also believed that while Arafat was aware of the plan to attack Ashdod, neither he nor P.L.F. Leader Abul Abbas knew about the liner hijacking in advance. Apparently, the hijacking occurred only...
...were anxious to avoid dealing with Lorenzo, whom they consider anti-union. In 1981, he bought Continental Airlines and two years later declared bankruptcy in order to get out of costly union contracts. In August, TWA's unions joined forces with Corporate Raider Carl Icahn to block Lorenzo's attempt to take over that airline. Says Lorraine Loflin, president of Frontier's flight attendants union: "We had directives from the membership that Lorenzo was not acceptable." The unions, which had given $32 million in wage concessions while trying to take over Frontier, said they would revoke the salary cuts...