Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael J. Fox has come up with his third straight Pepsi winner. Fox and Gertz battle a loud and hyperactive dog in their attempt to get a Pepsi from a vending machine while they're lost on the road...
...attempt to try and bring to people's attention that we care and that we're trying to protect their profits," Krasinski said. "We're not trying to insult anyone by saying that anyone is a potential shoplifter--though, sadbut true, it does occur...
Part of a national attempt to mobilize student workers, these undergraduates and recent graduates are going all out to turn the tide for faltering candidates and help push campaigns of popular candidates down the long road to the summer conventions...
...call, and some Washington officials point out that previous votes were also accompanied by dire predictions about the fate of peace in the region. But Republicans and Democrats agree that much will depend on Ortega's performance over the next few days. Two weeks ago, in an eleventh hour attempt to keep a five-month-old Central American peace process alive, Ortega offered several striking concessions, among them promises to lift Nicaragua's state of emergency and to hold direct talks with the guerrillas. Last week he moved to honor those pledges, restoring civil liberties, disbanding an unpopular...
...compassion" for society's have-nots. Contrasting himself with the patrician Bush, Dole emphasizes his humble background. He says he wants Iowans to recognize that "Bob Dole is one of us." Bush's demand that Dole release his tax returns, so as to display his affluence, was an attempt to dull Dole's populist luster...