Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Nixon decide to deploy the Johnson-planned ABM system, though in "substantially modified" form? The decision was an astute attempt at compromise between all-out advocates and all-out opponents of the system. But it would be wrong to ascribe to the President only political or public relations motives. Last June, during his campaign, he praised the proposed Sentinel system as essential to the credibility of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. At his second news conference as President a month ago, Nixon observed that "this system adds to our overall defense capability...
...large numbers. It says, in effect, that the occurrence of any chance event-the roll of a seven in dice, for example, or the random collision of stray molecules in the atmosphere-is more likely to conform to the prescribed statistical odds with each successive attempt. To Xenakis, this mathematical absolute has profound philosophical meaning: it implies that the changing structure of certain events in life, including the sounds that man creates, may tend ultimately toward a state of stability, or stochos (the Greek word for goal). Hence, he dubs his quest for mathematical orderliness in composition "stochastic" music. Xenakis...
...muscle in Washington and on Wall Street. After some phone calls from the White House, the Commerce committees of both the House and the Senate began looking into the sources of Resorts' financing and whether the company might be fronting for some bigger organization in an attempt to take over Pan Am. Legislation has been introduced in Congress to prevent any outside company from acquiring more than 5% of any airline's stock without approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...somehow students and professors are natural enemies, instead of being mutually dedicated collaborators. It is no mere cliché that the President voices at Commencement, when he tells the seniors that they are being admitted "to the fellowship of educated men." Civilization itself depends upon this basic fellowship. Any attempt to disrupt it is not merely immature and irresponsible; it is totally uncivilized. Harry Levin Chairman Department of Comparative Literature
...sensationalism of the copy forestalls any extended attempt by the Spectator editors to explain why the Columbia campus was one of the earliest to erupt. Why, that is, beyond despair over the war and distaste for university bullying of the community, issues, common to all campuses. The Ivy Wall makes a flying reference that greater social awareness at Columbia and an insensitive administration might have triggered the crisis...