Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long time to come. Almost as soon as The Miami Herald reported the liason between Gary Hart and model Donna Rice, Hart countered by questioning the Herald's handling the story. Hart claimed, among other things, that the Herald's surveillance of his townhouse was slipshod and that no attempt was made to interview those involved...
...attempt to perform while overly intoxicated...
...ruled that "major participation" in a felony "combined with reckless indifference to human life" is sufficient to justify a death penalty. For one thing, she noted, the Tison boys knew that their father was serving a life sentence for the murder of a prison guard during an earlier escape attempt. She sent back their case for an Arizona court to consider whether such reckless indifference had been a factor...
Anton Steenkamp, a former editor of Die Matie, a year ago led an attempt by Stellenbosch students to visit the headquarters of the outlawed African National Congress in Lusaka, but the government refused to issue them passports. He says he finds more dissatisfaction than ever before. "There has been a shift to the left on campus, especially since the independent candidates have emerged...
While some critics of biotechnology cite it as an attempt by man to play God, most scientists view it as merely the latest example of man playing man, exploiting nature as he always has. "A dairy cow was not put on this earth to produce milk for humans," Wagner says. "It was put here to make more cows. We just adapted them to our needs." Harvard Microbiologist Bernard Davis agrees. "Genetic engineering in animals is simply an extension of domestication," he says. "Of all the technologies that man has developed, domestication probably has the best record of enormous benefits...