Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rosen, the director of the agency's division of nuclear | safety, declared at week's end that the uncontrolled fire at the plant's No. 4 reactor was out, though the molten mass continued to smolder. He also confirmed that the Soviets were tunneling beneath the reactor in an attempt to seal off the damaged unit from below with concrete, thus protecting the underlying ground and water table. Rosen called the effort the first step in a plan to "entomb" the entire reactor in concrete. He added that the No. 3 unit, which some Western officials had thought might also...
Though Syrian President Hafez Assad has so far been cleverer than Gaddafi in covering his tracks, revelations of a possible Syrian role in the El Al attempt have raised the already high level of tension between Israel and Syria. Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told TIME last week that he believed "the decision about this crazy murderous act was taken at a relatively high level" in the Syrian government. Syria's support of terrorism "increased the danger" of a military confrontation, he warned, but he stressed that Israel does not intend to go to war with its neighbor...
...writer he has not provided for himself as generously as he has for others. His romance with a teacher played by Lise Hilboldt, an actress whose plainness of manner amounts to a kind of self-cancellation, is dully conventional. And a subplot that involves them in an endlessly unfunny attempt to soothe the troubled spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose...
...overzealous use of emotional epithet with several inaccuracies of fact. In addition you prejudge a decision of the Board on a specific set of cases before the final decisions have been made and clearly without having many of the facts that are being considered by the Board. This attempt to decide a case in the pages of a newspaper does little to promote the cause of the reasoned, impartial justice that you claim to espouse...
...sophomore had a no-hitter until the third inning when Dave Jamieson legged out an infield single. Jamieson moved to second after an errant pick off attempt and scored on a passed ball...