Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film sinks at its worst moments to the level of teenage fantasy. Bonham Carter, small and dark haired, with huge brown eyes and a face that suggests a miniature in an antique locket, plays the doomed Lady Jane Grey, who lost her life at 16 in an attempt to prevent Henry's Catholic daughter Mary Tudor from succeeding to the throne of newly Protestant England. The actress, who was 18 when the film was shot, projects an astonishing intensity as the unworldly Jane. Her own aristocratic background may have given her some assurance; it certainly assured endless publicity...
...Recording Secretary Anthony Hughes, both also indicted--to embezzle some $700,000 in union funds, allegedly to pay the salaries of three phony employees, including his uncle. Although conviction could bring Presser up to 51 years, imprisonment, he dismissed that possibility. "For five years the Federal Government has attempted to build a case against me but has succeeded in building nothing more than a house of cards," he said. Agent Friedrick had been supervisor of the FBI's organized-crime strike force in Cleveland. His statements in part led the Justice Department to suspend an attempt to indict Presser last...
...addition, Reagan's determination to "shrink the size of the federal government" has led him to cut programs and attempt to eliminate "fraud, waste, and abuse," Baker said...
...president began by tampering with one of Harvard's only democratic institutions in order to exclude an unfriendly opinion. Given the seriousness of the offense, his attempt to maintain his distance from it is not surprising. It was at best a glaring moral lapse, at worst, a crude calculation...
Such an approach does not lead to a single evaluation of homosexuality. Rather, it permits one to attempt to make the same moral distinctions among gay as among straight relationships: is the relationship mutually caring or exploitative? Does it nurture two whole people or is it destructive of the integrity of one or both? In short, is it a suitable way for two human beings of infinite worth to treat each other...