Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bolivian government blamed cocaine traffickers for the assassination attempt on the outskirts of La Paz, as well as for a second bombing yesterday at the U.S. commissary in the city. No injuries were reported in the later bombing, although the door of the commissary was damaged...
Marguerite Gerstell, a lesbian political activist from Winthrop, Mass., has reportedly given up her attempt to unseat incumbent State Senator Michael LoPresti '70 after he received the endorsement of the Greater Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance. But Boston City Councillor Robert Travaglini remains a strong contender in the race...
While the study was billed as an attempt togenerate momentum for an oil import tariff, itsucceeded most in calling attention to itself.Many reporters who attended the briefing say thatthey were suspicious of the hard-sell packaging ofthe report and of its funding sources. And thoughCapitol Hill never made much movement on oilimport fee legislation, several major funders ofthe EEPC who opposed such a fee have seemed tomake a point of distancing themselves from thecenter...
...expected, Thornburgh is recommended for confirmation by the committee,an attempt will be made to waive a Senate rule soThornburgh's confirmation can be voted on by thefull Senate Thursday before its three-week recessfor the convention, an aide to Sen. Orrin Hatch(R-Ut.) said...
...attractive teenager (she was Miss Black Tennessee of 1971), Oprah began her TV career as a reporter and anchor for the CBS affiliate in Nashville while she was still a student at Tennessee State. Later, at Baltimore's WJZ-TV, the TV imagemakers went to work. A botched attempt at a permanent caused all her hair to fall out temporarily. More important, her inexperience led to her being dumped as anchorwoman. "I was 22 years old," she says. "I had no business anchoring the news in a major market." She was given another chance, as co-host of a morning...