Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professors have been active in the faculty union or on faculty committees, and several have been strongly critical of B.U. President John R. Silber. There is little doubt that the proceedings against the professors are a cheap attempt at retribution and at intimidating the university community...
...funds "to enhance undergraduate life particularly for those students living in the Quadrangle Houses," read the fundraising literature. The statement did not say non-Quad residents would not be allowed to use the gym. As with Currier House and Hilles Library, the fund raising efforts were billed as an attempt to improve life at the Quad, but not at the exclusion of other University student...
Henry F. Owens III, Allen's attorney, said yesterday Mundy "has made an obvious attempt to influence the jury with evidence that has nothing to do with the trial," adding that information on the defendants' past associations with prostitutes should not be presented to the jury...
...roundly denounced by liberals as an attempt to confuse CCA voters, was just one cloud in the campaign. The Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers (CHT), another new group largely discredited as a political force by their candidate Frisoli's poor showing, mailed condo owneres a letter listing the tax assessement on the homes of some "anti-condo" councilors. And the usual number of nasty rumors and charges circulated the city. Perhaps the most widely-voiced and least effective concerned David Sullivan. "Psssst," people would say, elbowing your ribs. "Did you know his name is really Solomon?" It isn't, at least...
...with new styles. The Eagles are good at solid lyrics and sing-along tunes, but they have trouble trying to create the more ambitious moods they strive for in cuts like "Teenage Jail" and "The Disco Strangler." The problem here is that the band buries its talents in an attempt to say something new; the messages are too specific, the music too strong...