Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This visit] was the first attempt to set up a national network of learning in retirement programs," Ishikawa says. "Eventually we would like to start some sort of an exchange between the programs...
...coup, Burma has been virtually closed to visiting foreign correspondents. Yet during the past six months that benighted land has become one of the hottest news stories in the world, as thousands of dissident students, housewives, monks, civil servants and even police have taken to the streets in an attempt to topple the government and restore democracy...
Like a biological vaccination, a vaccine program is a preventive measure -- an attempt to protect an uninfected disk from invasion by an uninvited program. Most software vaccines take advantage of the fact that computer viruses usually hide themselves in one of a few locations within the machine's control software. A typical vaccine will surround those memory locations with the equivalent of a burglar alarm. If something tries to alter the contents of one of those cells, the vaccine program is supposed to stop everything and alert the operator. But because there are so many different viral strains out there...
Unlike Bull Durham, Eight Men Out is a true baseball film. Although it may go too far in attributing Frank Capra-esque traits to baseball, the movie does attempt to present the sport the way it should be, as an integral part of American culture. When news of the scandal becomes public, Chicago is in shock. The possibility of actual players, the immortal heroes of the city, sacrificing their talent for a few quick bucks is unthinkable in the untarnished world of baseball. Yet Sayles succeeds in bringing his point across. Innocence will always tarnish, whether it be love...
...fact, much of what Dukakis has been doing lately on the campaign trail has been an attempt to counter the I'm-more-of-a-populist attacks Bush has levelled against him. This includes everything from trying to list all the other states that have prison furlough systems ("I'm not outside the American political mainstream") to riding around in an M-1 tank...