Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan's hope for his Strategic Defense Initiative is to render nuclear missiles obsolete by erecting a leakproof umbrella over the U.S. But skeptics argue that an attempt to build a Star Wars defense would be "destabilizing" and would make nuclear war more likely, not less...
...which the Soviets have angrily denounced. But Thatcher limited her support of the controversial scheme to research, not to actual testing and deployment. According to close aides, the Prime Minister has serious doubts about the scientific feasibility and strategic logic of Star Wars. She cautioned that the Soviets might attempt to use the arms-control talks in Geneva, scheduled to begin March 12, "to sow differences among us." Said Thatcher: "Let us be under no illusions. It is our strength, not their good will, that has brought the Soviet Union to the negotiating table in Geneva...
While in takeover fights, Pickens often talks over strategy with his wife, who also accompanies him on most business trips. "She's become a real sounding board for him," says Sunshine Mining Chairman Michael Boswell, a partner in some deals. In the midst of the Gulf takeover attempt, Boswell heard Pickens talk for half an hour by phone to someone who seemed to be a lawyer or an investment banker, judging from the conversation. Boswell was surprised when it turned out to be Beatrice...
...claw hammer has with poetry; their English too is similarly disconnected, off the bead. For example, the unemployed might put the situation this way: "I told him for a job, he ask me no." Then again, a real live French photographer along for the ride said he would not attempt to speak like them because "I would never massacrate their language." And an organizer of the event said he liked it better this year than last because there were "more people and a better chance to conjugate." After awhile, the inebriated ear grows accustomed to tortured syntax, and all linguistic...
...Black Alumni Weekend, scheduled for March 1-3 and sponsored by the Black Students Association, the Association of -Black Radcliffe Women and the Afro-American cultural Center. Professor Kilson received an invitation to attend the activities of the Weekend, and to learn more about its purpose. He made no attempts to either speak with the student organizers or respond to the invitation. The Weekend was not funded by Black graduates, as Kilson wrongly states, but by the Undergraduate council, the Harvard Foundation for Race Relation, and numerous fundraising events (partics) among the students of all backgrounds will have the chance...