Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Detectives quickly excluded the Notarnicola family as suspects. In nearby New Rochelle, Secret Service agents arresting three suspects for credit-card fraud inadvertently discovered a letter threatening further poisonings unless the three were paid $2 million. Investigators believed the note was a fraud, an attempt to cash in on a tragic situation, as happened after the Chicago killings, when Con Man James W. Lewis went to prison for ten years for sending a $1 million extortion note to Johnson & Johnson...
Thus commenced the so-called monster trial, Italy's most ambitious, costly and complex attempt ever to root out the Mafia from its historic home in western Sicily. Everything about the criminal prosecution is gigantic. There are 467 defendants, variously charged with drug trafficking, Mafia membership and 90 murders in an 8,636-page indictment. More than 400 witnesses are scheduled to testify. The alleged Mobsters will be defended by a small army of some 300 lawyers. More than 3,000 extra police have been brought to Sicily to protect those involved in the trial...
Jack's devious efforts to engineer that unlikely event (and stay within the movie's realistic frame) require some fairly desperate contrivances. But they alternate with grace notes, like a dinner at which Jack and Reno attempt to reconcile with their estranged wives while following the Monday-night football game. Williams' portrayal of a man disheveled but not defeated by history is first-class, and so is Russell's as a man chilled by the fear that his legend exceeds the truth. Theirs is a matchup worthy of instant replay...
Kossan said that the new rent increases will attempt to make up for the "lag" in past years' rents. They will also incorporate an anticipated 8 percent increase in the market rate for the 1986-87 lease year...
Judging by the responses of most pre-freshmen contacted, the Admissions Office seems to have succeeded in its attempt to acclimate these prospective students. "When I first arrived, I felt daunted," says Kwan. "This program has alleviated my anxiety to a large degree...