Word: attempted
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Brown's visit to White Sands and his major speech later in the week in San Francisco were not acts of saber rattling. His performance was part of the most carefully coordinated Administration attempt so far to articulate its defense strategy and its foreign policy goals. The Administration did seem, at least for now, to have harmonized its dissonant voices. The theme was clear: America is second to none in strength, but is nevertheless committed to long-term cooperation-with the Soviets wherever possible...
...Brooke had not reported the loan in his financial report to the U.S. Senate. Actually, no such loan existed; Brooke admitted that it was a "misstatement." He had borrowed only $2,000 from Tye. The rest came from his mother-in-law's insurance settlement. In an attempt to end the controversy, he handed Perera a check two weeks ago for $30,193, which he said he owed to his mother-in-law's estate, and asked the judge to decide where it should go. Among the claimants is the Massachusetts public welfare department. Reason: by giving...
...manage to evade the purgatory of Pathet Lao rule by crossing the Mekong River, the poorly guarded frontier between Laos and Thailand. From Viet Nam, thousands of refugees -the so-called boat people-have sailed to Thailand or Malaysia in overcrowded junks. An equal number have died in the attempt...
...half-breed, a strange and ill-conceived little book that wanders around somewhere between being a police record and a cheap detective novel. Most annoying--and there are many annoying features of this book--is the authors' practice of assigning fictitious names to all the characters, in a clear attempt to avoid the lawsuits that would otherwise accompany even the slightest exercise of their literary license. That may be understandable, but the problem is that the major characters are so well-known that the pseudonyms become a real distraction, an annoying reminder to the reader that he actually went...
...reported that a company had canceled her auto coverage because "waitresses are considered transients." Metzenbaum's conclusion: "A persuasive case has been made that, in order to maximize profits, property and casualty companies [a category that includes auto insurers] are rejecting 'clean' risks in an apparent attempt to eliminate all but the ideal policyholders-that is, ones with no losses...