Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most clear-cut example was North's conviction for accepting an illegal gratuity -- a $13,800 home-security system -- from retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, quartermaster of the Iranian arms sales. North admitted forging two letters in an attempt to prove that he had offered to pay for the system...
Project ADD is a two year-old, student-run group committed to education and outreach. According to organizers, the project visits freshpeople proctorial groups in an attempt to generate discussion about alcohol and drug-related problems...
...A.J.A. is hardly a terrorist organization, and the Israeli government has never classified it as such. Still, Ettinger and other officials see the cards as part of an attempt by the leaders of the uprising to adopt the trappings of an independent state. Foreign journalists counter that the cards have no political meaning and that they carry them only because their Israeli credentials are no longer credible. "Given the dangers my staff faces," says Reuters chief correspondent Paul Taylor, "I owe it to them to do what I can for their security...
...Prime Minister's attempt to invest his disgrace with honor was overshadowed only a few hours later by the news -- long anticipated by many Japanese -- that one of the key players had committed suicide. Aoki, 58, Takeshita's closest political aide for 30 years, slashed his wrist, neck and foot with a razor blade, then hanged himself with a necktie. As the man who had handled Takeshita's political finances, some newspaper commentators speculated, Aoki may have taken his life to shield the Prime Minister from possible criminal prosecution. But Aoki may simply have been following a long- standing Japanese...
...mother, but that there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. Motherhood emotionally and physically changes a woman. Your head and your body get connected so fast. Cloning, all that biological stuff, is male motherhood. The whole technological age is an attempt to have men give birth...