Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance's case was also strong, when he denied that he had made any attempt to conceal damaging information from the committee during its confirmation hearings in January. He said that he had met with committee investigators on Jan. 13 and discussed his major financial troubles. They mainly concerned overdrafts in his accounts at the Calhoun bank; the overdrafts incurred there by his campaign committee when he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Georgia in 1974; and the agreement that the Calhoun bank reached with the Comptroller of the Currency in 1975, requiring, among other things...
Jimmy Carter has already called on Clifford for assistance at least three' times: to ease his transition to power, advise Ted Sorensen when his nomination as CIA director ran into implacable Senate opposition, and serve as the President's special envoy in an attempt-so far unsuccessful-to help negotiate a settlement between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus...
...Hispanics is that the provision for $1,000 fines for those hiring illegals without work permits will prompt many employers to protect themselves by not hiring anyone of Hispanic descent. At their convention in Fresno, Calif., Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union condemned the program as an attempt "to promote wholesale discrimination in employment against all workers who have dark skins and speak languages other than English...
...which the Soviets will decide they have the necessary superiority to attack the U.S. Instead the crucial question, he says, is where they might attack. And he is convincing in his explanation that it is not our cities, but our weapons, that would be their first target--in an attempt to limit the damage the aggressor would incur in a retaliatory strike...
...heroine Debby, Kathleen Quinlan conveys the fear, isolation, anger and occasional joy of the schizophrenic convincingly, but Page's failure to do more than superficially explain why she feels these emotions makes it difficult to empathize with what could have been a superlative job of acting. Page's attempt to depict Debby's fantasy world, to which she retreats from an unpleasant reality, further emphasizes his direction's shallowness. Green described a world complete with a separate language and gods who alternately seduce and torment Debby; but such a world could only be shown on film by a master like...