Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Japan's pool of surplus capital being funnelled into other countries makes a retreat from foreign involvement impossible. Japanese investing abroad will demand that their government attempt to influence the policies and development of the nations where they have put their money...
...desires, hypocritical or not, should be irrelevant to the Legislature's deliberations. The league has no power to prevent the state from implementing the plan, and state representatives, when they return from recess in the fall, should see the plan for what it is: a sensible attempt both to raise money and to reduce the income of organized crime...
B.A.T immediately slapped down last week's bid. Chairman Patrick Sheehy described the offer as "no more than an ill-conceived attempt at destructive financial engineering," designed to give the raiders a quick payout by stripping the company's assets. London investors questioned the feasibility of Goldsmith's financing, while corporate chieftains feared he might set off a rash of leveraged takeover raids...
...model for the swashbuckling Sir Larry Wildman in the 1987 film Wall Street, the 6-ft. 4-in. Goldsmith may have made his point all too well. Now that he has put B.A.T on the block, other raiders may try to top his offer. Or B.A.T may attempt to boost its stock price beyond his reach by launching a restructuring in which some of the company's juicy parts would be sold off. At week's end B.A.T shares closed at 14.21, indicating that investors expect an even sweeter offer to come...
...Louisiana, for example, a 1986 statute defines a frozen embryo as a juridical person -- meaning that it has legal status and can be represented by an attorney in court proceedings. But under another Louisiana law, a woman can legally abort an implanted embryo through the first trimester. In an attempt to resolve some uncertainties, an ethics committee of the Virginia-based American Association of Tissue Banks is drafting rules for the handling and disposition of frozen embryos...