Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Medical Association (AMA) predicts the figure will reach $7 billion within three years. Medical, legal and insurance industries, each rapacious in its own inimitable way, have evolved into three fiercely competitive and increasingly unscrupulous rivals. One disgruntled, and perhaps uninformed, Boston Globe columnist recently quipped that any attempt to take sides on the malpractice issue "is like trying to decide whom to cheer for if war erupted between Libya, Iran, and Iraq...
...this week's women's basketball notebook to attempt to explain just what the Crimson has done to transform its 2-10, last-place Ivy finish of a year ago into its 8-3, first-place standing of this year--with but one game remaining...
This means, for the benefit of the great unwashed who have never seen a Pudding show, that every slice of dialogue is a self-transcending attempt at stupider jokes than the ones before. And the authors have outdone themselves this year. Whether it's the Bible, Consumer Reports, or the game-show circuit, Jess Bravin and Peter Sagal have plumbed the depths of Americana, Harvardiana, banality and even hallowed Tradition to create some of the longest strings of groan-inducing one-liners in history...
...many as 18 points during the meet. Harvard made a comeback attempt in the contest's last moments, closing to 55-51, but, like in the Princeton meet, the Crimson could not capture the final event, the 400-yd. freestyle relay, which would have given...
Intelligence and diplomatic sources in France and the Middle East believe the bombings are a new attempt by Shi'ite terror groups to pressure the French government into releasing imprisoned terrorists in exchange for four Frenchmen kidnaped last year in Beirut. The terrorist attacks did nothing to improve the prospects for the European tourist industry. American bookings have fallen off so sharply in some countries that one Greek tourism official called it a "biblical catastrophe...