Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first attempt at this new approach to humor came together in "Your Issue" in 1976. I he idea, McCormack says, was "this is your magazine with your jokes and your ideas, and if it sucks, it's your fault...
...credit, he has in has nine years as the College's top official done many things which people will remember, which have noticeably affected the quality of undergraduate life and which stand to make his legacy an impressive one. Surely, he's had his failings--an aborted attempt in the late 1970s to save money by criminating hot breakfasts in the Houses is perhaps the most memorable example. But what House Masters and others who recall his successes mention foremost is Fox's establishment of the current form of the House system, quite a contrast to the dissociated setup...
...lengthy package--mailed two weeks ago to the firm's 61,000 neighbors in parts of Belmont, Arlington and North Cambridge--includes some newspaper articles, explanations of a technical nature and a three-page letter from John Magee, the lab's president. ADL is currently contesting an attempt by city councilors to prohibit research on nerve agents...
...attempt to reduce budget deficits for fiscal year 1986, Reagan is asking for cuts in a wide range of housing programs, including a one year moratorium on spending for modernization of currently existing public housing projects, a 95 percent reduction in funds for the subsidized housing program, and a 10 percent cut in the community bloc grant program...
...loans by the Small Business Administration and the Export-Import Bank, subsidies to Amtrak and urban mass transportation, and general revenue- sharing grants to cities and counties. The fact that nearly all of these slashes have been well publicized in advance does not make them any less bold an attempt to carry out Reagan's philosophical objective of reducing the role of the Federal Government in American life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep, are lying low, many in the hope that Reagan's budget will...