Word: attempted
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Several years ago, Rendell wrote two screenplays but she refuses to do any more or to attempt a play for the stage, despite pleas from producers, because "I cannot stand the tedious business of having to tell everything through dialogue." She is protective of her stories in the hands of others. When Bette Midler made a six-figure offer for the rights to Rendell's favorite book, The Killing Doll, the author spurned the offer. Midler, she says, was wrong for the role...
...would be premature to suggest a cost for the project, said Bowron, who took over as director of the museums this fall. But another official, who asked not to be named, indicated that the musuem would attempt to raise more than $10 million...
...vote recommending Rehnquist's elevation came as Republicans easily beat back an attempt by liberal Democrats to portray him as too extreme to lead the U.S. court system...
Voting on straight party lines, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejected an attempt by Democrats to approve a sweeping, near total trade embargo on South Africa as passed by the House. But Republican Senators Charles Mathias of Maryland and Daniel Evans of Washington succeeded in persuading the committee and its chairman, Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, to ask the Senate to take tougher steps than even Lugar had proposed. By a vote of 15 to 2, the committee approved a bill that would ban all new investments in South Africa by U.S. companies and prevent any U.S. banks from making...
...cold-blooded scheme to prevent the country's economy from collapsing: KGB agents blow up a group of Soviet schoolchildren visiting the Kremlin; the U.S.S.R. then blames the attack on West German terrorists, launches an invasion of Central Europe, captures Iceland and rushes the navy into action in an attempt to control the North Atlantic sea-lanes--all as a ruse for grabbing Persian Gulf oil facilities. The pretext serves Clancy better than it does the Soviets: it provides a fine backdrop for his account of strategies and shoot-outs...