Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is no attempt to cheat the University out of any money, but it is a convienient way of getting funding for the center with no strings attached," Safran said...
Then the snags reemerge. The album's other attempt to corner the feminist market fares poorly. "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves," sung with Annie Lennox, beats its anthemic theme over the head--"Now this is a song to celebrate/The conscious liberation of the female state...." Although Eurythmics' Dave Stewart gets in a few impressive licks, the tune buckles under the weight of its own significance...
Perhaps it is the immorality of the President's plan that irks the professors' consciences. Rather than view Star Wars as an attempt to render the mainland invulnerable while we pummel our adversaries we see an opportunity to protect population centers in the event of a nuclear attack. While we are not about to heap hosannas on another level of the arms race, neither are we blind to the plan's positive potentials...
...today so central to the average person's sense of identity. During the second decade of this century the expansion of market relations into new spheres of social life generated major shifts in the cultural outlook for thousands of young Americans. This was the product of a deliberate attempt to equate consumption and the satisfaction of prefabricated desires with freedom and youthful rebellion, thereby facilitating the production of new conceptions of personal identity which were almost completely dependent upon the possession of status commodities. As cultural historian Stuart Ewen has noted, the object was to capture the interest...
...same token, Pickens said in a heavy Texas twang, he would do nothing contrary to the interests of his own stockholders to fend off a hostile takeover attempt...