Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to prevent a repeat of last week's long meeting, Chairman Offutt gently chides the council, "This is question time, not discussion time...
...Buchanan has written a varied and pleasing musical score, especially effective during the battle scene. Occasionally though, the music is played over several scenes of dialogue, an annoying innovation apparently taken from TV. It ought to have been left there. At one point, the cast makes an ill-advised attempt to sing along to a Mr. Rogers-style piano. For all you kids out there, do whatever you like in the shower, but please, please, DO NOT DO THIS ON STAGE...
Speaking at the Center for International Affairs, Alejandro Martinez, Nicaragua's Minister of Foreign Trade, took issue with Reagan's attempt to portray Nicaragua as a Soviet pawn. Martinez said that the Nicaraguan government has only sought help from the Soviet Union when it felt that "the U.S. was trying to kill...
...Administration was worried about General Ver, who on Monday was still in a position to attempt a last-gasp military move. There were reports that he was about to send tanks to attack the reformers. Accordingly, the National Security Council sent a message to Ver advising him that it would not be in his "interest" to make a military move. Translation: if he called out troops, he would forfeit his chance of being included in the Marcos rescue operation. The warning was heeded...
...Aquino's main goals during her first days in office will be to throw some of the gears of government into high-speed reverse. "More than determining what government should be doing, we will attempt to define very clearly what government should not be doing," says Minister Villafuerte. The language sounds Reaganesque, but in today's Philippines, less government means greater civil liberties as well as unfettered markets. Aquino raised the issue of decentralization before the election when she outlined a detailed plan for her first 100 days in office. Among the promises: to unshackle the government-controlled press, expel...