Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Candidates '88" was Kalb's attempt to present his style to Americans through one-hour interviews. And in his interviews, it is fair to say that viewers got true League of Women Voters material...
...latest attempt may have begun two weeks ago, when Delvalle met in Miami with Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Some sources said Abrams broached the idea of firing the strongman to remedy the political and economic crisis that has gripped Panama since anti-Noriega demonstrations took place last summer. According to one account, Abrams told Delvalle, "You know as well as I do that Mr. Noriega has to leave." Several days later Panamanian official asked Abrams whether the U.S. could withdraw the drug indictments against the general to induce him to step down. The answer...
Mexican officials frown on information provided by sources like Gabriel. They contend that the informants attempt to save their own skin by spreading unverifiable tales about prominent people. True, Gabriel is no angel; his DFS job involved reselling drugs that had been seized by other Mexican police. Still, many of his allegations have the ring of truth. Mexico thoroughly reorganized the DFS in 1985. Says one U.S. investigator of Gabriel: "Whom he says he knows, he knows. He calls them. He talks with them about drugs. We're satisfied that what he says is true...
...right. Some never learn. Loneliness can motivate anyone to do most anything--this is Harvard afterall. But if you attempt to find a little romance, watch out for these dead-ends...
Dinda, a Brown University student, says the band is an attempt to discard old formulas and to perform music different from the "old slop you hear from every other band." Magus and drummer Brian Carpenter discovered Dinda, Voorhes and guitarist Steve Allegretto through a series of ads in a Providence newspaper in early...