Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Peterpaul, a Machinists vice president, said Eastern filed for bankruptcy on payday "in a spiteful attempt to deny Eastern workers their last paycheck earned before the strike." Paychecks were frozen by the move...
Partial randomization offers token diversity at the expense of student choice. The sacrifice of some freshmen guinea pigs in a lily-livered attempt to pay lip service to diversity would only serve to alienate those unlucky frosh...
...Harvard truly believes its students should be treated like responsible adults, it should respect these preferences. As long as anyone is equally free to reside in any house, every attempt should be made to accommodate student choice. The present policy of free choice is excellent...
Under the temporary guidance of Sox Coach Rac Slider, the Sox fall to the A's, 5-0. In a hastily called news conference after the game, Adams announces that her take-over attempt has succeeded...
...poison-gas factory in Libya, the West German chemical company is besieged by criticism from its own employees, who fear their jobs will be lost unless President Jurgen Hippenstiel-Imhausen resigns. Two weeks ago Imhausen's second-in-command took a drug overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. Now comes news that the firm is involved in the illegal production and sale of MDMA, a designer drug commonly known as "ecstasy...