Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...names the priority customers, like farmers, but makes no attempt to change the list quickly or to check that the customers really need what they ask for. Farmers, long after spring planting has been completed, can simply say that they need so many gallons, and the local distributor must supply that amount. The result is oversupply and hoarding in agricultural areas...
...ever puts a bounty on illegal immigrants, we'll all be rich," jokes Thomas. Indeed, nearly 46,000 have been captured and returned so far this year; more than 11,000 were caught in June alone. Nevertheless, Hong Kong officials estimate that they catch only half those who attempt to reach the colony...
...Americans' mission: to seek agreement on a new peace proposal under which Somoza would resign in favor of a new provisional government dominated by moderates but in which both the Sandinistas and pro-Somoza conservatives would be represented. The rebel government, however, regards the plan as yet another attempt by Washington to interfere in Nicaragua's internal affairs...
...call it quits. Early one morning, the anti-whalers' mother ship, Rainbow Warrior* slipped out of Reykjavik in hopes of making it to the whaling grounds. Said McTaggart: "I think we've been so successful they will have to arrest us." Not quite. During the first attempt, an Icelandic gunboat simply signaled them back just a few miles beyond the harbor entrance. But when the Rainbow Warrior tried to sneak out again, both ship and protesters were detained. After McTaggart pledged to call off further interference, at least for the moment, the protesters' ship sailed...
Security for the protest cost LILCO an estimated $250,000, and the Suffolk Co. police $150,000 more; the expenses, naturally, would be passed on to ratepayers and taxpayers. The occupation attempt brought construct on, normally light on a Sunday, to a one-day halt, a short-lived moral victory. Proceedings for the arrested clogged District Court in Hauppauge for a week, and about half of the protesters have turned down an offer to have the charges dismissed in six months and instead opted to plead not guilty and demand a jury trial. Self-defense, they'll say, and repeat...