Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Harvard then ran off 13 of the next 15 points, including five layups. Off a fast break, Tri-Captain Kyle Dodson (nine points, eight rebounds) took a pass from Gielen, and scored on an aborted dunk attempt...
...David Orr, 43, a white liberal, is serving as interim mayor while the city council selects one of its members to become acting mayor until a 1989 election. But the succession could turn contentious if Washington's political heirs cannot agree on a candidate or their foes make an attempt to force a special election next year. Either way, the power of Chicago's black voters and their determination to retain control of the city's highest office make it likely that the next mayor will be black. The leading contenders: Timothy Evans, 43, Washington's bland but competent city...
...intruder, whom even Israeli soldiers credited with great skill, was apparently one of two Palestinians dispatched on the suicide mission. The second landed his glider in southern Lebanon in an attempt to evade gunfire from Israeli security forces, who later tracked him down and killed...
...strike had been called by Italy's three big labor federations to protest tighter economic measures being proposed by Prime Minister Giovanni Goria's fragile five-party coalition government. But the walkout was also an attempt by the federations to reassert their muscle in the face of a series of wildcat strikes staged this fall by independent labor organizations. The COBAS (for Comitati di Base, or rank-and-file committees) have sprung up to counter the ineffectiveness of organized labor...
...already destroyed two candidates and a campaign manager. But in the heat of the presidential campaign, it remains imperative to remember the famous Freudian crack that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Stepping back from the quest for great psychological truths does not mean abandoning the praiseworthy attempt to predict presidential performance. But there are methods other than pop psychology for judging would-be leaders; they may not be as flashy, but they are more easily measured and assessed. Each candidate brings to the campaign a distinct management style that serves as a rough approximation of how he might...