Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty granted three reforms last year at the instigation of students in the Class of 1980, who broke the boycott in an attempt to reform the CRR from within. The CRR, however, still provides the students it tries no means of appealing its decision, except by asking the CRR itself to reconsider its decision. Nor does it admit hearsay evidence. Token reform can not alter the character of the CRR, which violates basic principles of legal justice...
Returning for the first time to Walter Brown arena, where they played their home games last year during the renovation of Watson Rink, the Crimson Icemen (1-2) attempt to even their record tonight against Boston University...
...amendment, designed to clarify the removal ordinance by stipulating that the law applies to all buildings not demolished or converted at the time of its passage, is an attempt to protect tenants on Blanche St. and in the Greycroft homes on Mass...
...broke. Fearing their employees would be in danger, CBS and NBC hesitated. They soon realized their mistake, but over the next few days five crews from CBS and three from NBC were turned away at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. A producer in Iran estimated that each futile entry attempt cost $16,000. ABC's Dyk was later given an on-the-spot promotion to the rank of network TV correspondent, and the ABC World News Tonight ratings jumped by two full Nielsen points, or about 1.5 million households, over the previous two weeks. Moaned a rival producer...
...reformers really mean to punish the FTC and severely limit its powers." In an attempt to stop such congressional action, top Carter Aide Stuart Eizenstat sent an urgent plea to Senator Ford, arguing that the Senate was about to "undermine the capacity of Government agencies to meet real public needs...