Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before Tutu's election was announced, the Board approved most of the report's recommendations, even though HRAAA supporters said it was just a heavy-handed attempt to defeat their pro-divestment movement...
...increasingly defiant tone of the nationalists has provoked the ire of hard-liners in the Soviet leadership. In a harsh blast read over national television, the Communist Party Central Committee denounced the protests as an attempt "to incite the peoples of the Baltic republics to secede from the Soviet Union." The Central Committee criticized local party leaders for "playing up to nationalist sentiments," and called for "resolute, urgent measures to cleanse the Baltic republics of extremism and destructive and harmful tendencies...
...same as it's always been, and it will be happy to see them. It will also be happy to know that the material on Steel Wheels is a lot like them -- up to date but fundamentally unchanged. The record kicks off with Sad Sad Sad, a creditable attempt to capture again the dynamics of the group's early sound, when the rhythm came in solid sheets and the lyrics sounded as if they were being spit out of a semiautomatic weapon. After that, it bustles through a very commercial, danceable tune or two, a couple of extravagant experiments (including...
...former game warden who became foster father to dozens of lion cubs finally fell victim to deadlier animals -- men armed with assault rifles. Adamson, 83, and two of his assistants were shot to death last week when he drove his Land Rover straight at three bandits in an attempt to rescue another employee and a woman guest who had been waylaid near his bush camp in northeastern Kenya. By midweek, police had seized three suspects...
...well-orchestrated protests were more a publicity gesture than a serious attempt to impede lumbering operations. Forest rangers and police largely ignored the climbers. But they did manage to focus renewed public attention on an issue that has been simmering for years: logging of the nation's "old- growth" forests...