Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Collegiate Tournament was started in the forties, but the prize trips were started just last year, Cole said. He added that the tournament was introduced as an attempt to foster interest in bridge among college students and other young people...
...Communication Commision from considering Murdoch's request that it reverse "cross-ownership" restrictions, which make it impossible for the same individual to own both a daily newspaper and television station in the same area. To keep Boston's Channel 25, and New York's Channel 5, integral to his attempt to build a fourth t.v. network, Murdoch will have to sell the papers...
There was a peculiar precedent for her escape: in 1979 Sara Jane Moore, who tried to kill Ford just 17 days after Fromme's attempt, escaped from Alderson (Moore was recaptured only hours later and sent to a California prison). Fromme's flight surprised prison officials, particularly since the mild- mannered inmate had turned down an offer for a parole hearing in 1985. "She seemed O.K. to me," said Associate Warden Maureen Atwood. "But she's kind of strange." Authorities speculated that Fromme might have heard unconfirmed rumors that Manson was dying of cancer and become desperate...
...I.R.A. bombing in Enniskillen last November that resulted in the deaths of eleven civilians. The I.R.A. struck again last week: John McMichael, a leading Protestant activist, was blown up in his booby-trapped car outside Belfast. Said Joe Hendron, a Belfast city councilman: "McMichael had made a constructive attempt to end the political impasse...
...first sour note was struck when Dole appeared beside Ronald Reagan in the White House to announce halfheartedly that he would support the INF missile treaty. Dole has been waffling on the treaty in an attempt to appease G.O.P. right-wingers, while Bush loyally endorsed the deal. Reagan, who needs the backing of Senate Republicans to ratify his treaty, was in the awkward position of seeming to boost Dole's faltering campaign...