Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feels the inevitable tuggings at one's heartstrings, but all the while one knows that this is a manipulative attempt to put a respectable face on a lackluster script. How unfortunate that talented people spent their energies on such an undertaking as Fools...
...change were motivated by a series of surveys and meetings with customers conducted by a outside marketing research group, bank officials said. Holmes said that the renovations reflect an attempt to cater to a more youthful and affluent community...
While Harvard's handling of the accident itself has been admirable, the whole episode is troubling. How can the University claim to maintain basic safety, when it fails to act on hazards it is consistantly warned about? Is there any real attempt to find new safety problems in buildings...
...Israelis made no attempt to disguise their relief that al-Wazir's career had come to an end. "I do not know who killed him, but I do not regret the fact that someone did it," said a government official. "After all he did to us, he deserved it." A founding member of Fatah, al-Wazir was second only to Arafat in the military arm of the P.L.O. He dispatched the first Fatah squad in 1965 to sabotage Israel's main water project, and has been in charge of planning and coordinating military operations inside Israel since...
...trip was President Corazon Aquino's first outside the Philippines in almost a year and a half, and it was clearly a respite from troubles at home. There, rumors swirled of another coup attempt by Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan. Though police last week arrested eight fugitive guards who had escaped with him from a prison ship two weeks earlier, Honasan remained at large. In her absence, Aquino named a military-dominated committee to run the government...