Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the Tokyo summit to a nation exasperated by a siege of gas lines, he compounded his difficulties by first scheduling a major policy speech on energy, then abruptly canceling it without a word of explanation. The Camp David summit, which began 48 hours later, represented above all an attempt to start rebuilding an image of purposeful leadership...
Those who were in his presence came back full of praise and hope for Carter. His sincerity won them. Some, who had counseled Presidents as far back as Truman, were at first stunned, then fascinated by this attempt to lead by learning, to make new policy from a cram course in national attitudes. All of the guests seemed carried along by that small, warm figure who implored them to help him set the U.S. right again before the future fell in on the country...
Sullivan said the bill in an attempt to "get a reign on" condominium conversion in the city. Nearly 2000 Cambridge apartments have been turned into condominiums in recent years...
...This book is an attempt to recount that era," von Schmidt adds, "to show that this existed, and that it may happen again." The author balks at considering folk alongside other American "scenes," such as any rock and roll scene, including today's burgeoning punk/new wave scene...
...raunchiness are painfully absent here. At its best, Meatballs rises only to the level of TV's now defunct Animal House sitcoms. Through it all, Murray smiles and forges ahead, but his big riffs have been edited down to frantic bursts of mugging. Even worse is the single attempt to capitalize on his personal warmth: an interminable subplot about the friendship between Murray and a shy camper (Chris Makepeace) is so mawkishly presented that it takes on an unintended air of homosexual romance. As Murray himself might put it on Saturday Night Live, Meatballs is the work of knuckleheads...