Word: attempted
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...perhaps inevitable that Lauren would eventually try his hand in the challenging womenswear market, but his touch proved less sure there. His first tailored shirts for women, in 1971, were a success. Nonetheless, his initial attempt at a full line of womenswear in 1972, inspired partly by British riding clothes, was deemed too unsubtly imitative of menswear lines. Critics were startled and yet intrigued. "A phenomenon to bewilder anthropologists," sniffed The New Yorker...
...overture reflected the less menacing and more flexible foreign policy that General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev has been developing. The Soviets must renew relations with Israel if they hope to play a central role in any Middle East peace process. They may also have agreed to the meeting in an attempt to defuse hostility within the U.S. Jewish community, thus lessening the chance of anti-Soviet demonstrations should Gorbachev journey to Washington later this year for a summit with President Reagan...
Pope John Paul II began his reign eight years ago, at a time when theologians and laity alike were openly questioning some traditional teachings of the church. Since then the Vatican has attempted to restore a sense of doctrinal discipline; it removed renegade Swiss Theologian Hans Kung from his teaching post at the University of Tubingen in West Germany and silenced for a year Brazilian Franciscan Leonardo Boff, an advocate of Marxist-tinged liberation theology. Last week Rome moved against an American priest who has openly questioned the church's stance on sexual morality. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, head...
...enact the package. The measure provides $70 million in military help and $30 million in "humanitarian" aid for the contras, plus $300 million in assistance to Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Guatemala. It now faces a House-Senate conference committee, where Speaker Tip O'Neill may again attempt to stall it. But even Democratic opponents expect it to pass before November's midterm elections...
...since 1982 to assist their insurrection against the Soviet-backed Sandinista government, although in 1984 Congress restricted the help to "humanitarian" supplies such as boots and bandages. But Administration officials said privately last week that Nicaragua's Pacific coast may be targeted for raids and that the contras may attempt to seize and hold a small piece of territory along the country's northern Atlantic coast. Moreover, the military aid to the contras would be parceled out in installments and would be contingent on congressional agreement that peace negotiations were stalemated. Senate opponents of the aid bill focused...