Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Halabja carnage, reaction in diplomatic circles and the international media has been strangely muted. Iraq's flagrant violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol did not precipitate an enraged outcry from the 105 nations that have signed the ban on chemical weapons through the years, nor did it inspire any attempt to bring Iraq before the International Court of Justice. Despite "major acts of genocide," says Steven Rose, a neurobiologist at Britain's Open University, "the fact is, Iraq has got away with...
...notion of a true merger of their companies. Each man continued to maintain a personal fiefdom, with separate corporate staffs, public relations departments and financial advisers. Then, last May, heavy trading in Moet Vuitton shares on the Paris Bourse signaled that the company would be vulnerable to a takeover attempt. Chevalier responded to the threat by calling on a friend, Anthony Tennant, president of Guinness PLC, the powerful British drinks group that markets Moet-Hennessy brands around the globe. Guinness was asked to take a 20% stake in Moet Vuitton as anti-takeover insurance. Racamier opposed the alliance, fearing that...
What Hispanics see in Dukakis is what Bush lacks: sincerity. Dukakis has made a symbolic attempt at the Convention to speak to Hispanics in their native tongue that will most likely result in Hispanics voting Democratic in November...
...Bush's support for inclusion does not please all Republicans. Some worry that he will compromise party principles in an attempt to sway moderate voters. But these conservatives concede, in 1988, if Bush were to sway the party back towards its Rockefeller image, they have nowhere else to turn...
...attempt by modern scholars to ferret out the real, historical Nazarene from the supposedly embellished accounts in the Bible -- a process known as the historical-critical method, or "higher criticism" -- has resulted in some rather unorthodox notions. A current sampling...