Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sociz ("Johnny") Junatanov, who worked in his father's restaurant, hired a thug in 1985 to kill his father. When the knife-wielding assailant failed, Junatanov's girlfriend crept into the hospital disguised as a nurse and injected the wounded victim with battery acid. That attempt also failed. Junatanov lined up another contract killer to finish the job -- but this time the hired assassin was an undercover Los Angeles police officer. Junatanov, 20, landed in jail. Last year a jury in Los Angeles acquitted him of all charges after hearing lurid testimony of years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse...
Michaelson added that the posters displayed "either ignorance of what an alder does or an attempt to mislead the Yale community into thinking that she will have influence in areas in which an alder has no authority...
Without a student perspective, the attempt to control the Head of the Charles has taken the form of an over-reaction to a good time. It's certainly not a thoughtful effort to discourage rowdiness. Will carding students at the House gates really control the following day's giant party along the banks of the Charles...
Senior Michael Burman has organized a group called Seniors Against Another Strike. In a petition by a group of seniors to the administration and the unions, the students asked that both parties "attempt to reach an equitable settlement...
...Montoya seeks to avenge the death of his father and is involved in a ruthless search for the six-fingered killer. When he finds him, he intimidates his prey by emulating a broken record. "I am Inigo Montoya," he drones repeatedly. "You killed my father. Prepare to die." This attempt at humor, like many of the film's "comic" touches, entirely misses its mark...