Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...followed the mast up to the crow's nest and found an undamaged brass mast light. The robot looked into the windows of the officers' quarters and propelled itself through the first-class entranceway to glimpse the ship's gymnasium. It went over the side and made an unsuccessful attempt to squeeze through portholes on the promenade deck. Said Ballard: "He has to go on a diet." There was an anxious moment as J.J.'s tether caught on a jagged piece of metal, but Bowen maneuvered the robot back and forth until it pulled free...
Robert W. Bennett, dean of Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, who signed the deans' letter, said: "Part of what is disappointing about this whole thing is that our intense protest was to no avail. We made an honest attempt to really address the issue on the merits, but there was really a willingness to ignore the truth for politics...
Since then, Adlai Stevenson III, a bona fide Democrat who supports his party's platform--unlike the LaRoucheites--has chosen to withdraw from the ballot and attempt to run as a third-party candidate rather than carry these usurpers into office with him. The election laws are currently working against him in the same way that they confounded Berman...
Typically, a lawyer will attempt to drop the client, as Rubin did. Sometimes the lawyer may warn the judge outright of the perjury. A third alternative is the one suggested to Rubin by the Florida appeals court: to stand mute while the defendant narrates his story unaided, a solution rejected by the A.B.A. but permitted in some states. For the lawyer who decides to part from a client, says Hofstra Law Professor Monroe Freedman, "the point of no return is when you are so close to trial that the judge is not going to grant a motion to withdraw." That...
...said. Mrs. Reagan also disclosed last week that when those busy White House days end with the second term, she will write a sequel to her 1980 memoir Nancy. Based on diaries she has been keeping, it will include her "innermost feelings" about such events as the 1981 assassination attempt on her husband, which affected her so deeply that she can barely bring herself to mention...