Word: attempted
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What hurts most about this year's election is that the party studiously avoided making either choice. Deep down most Democrats probably do not feel Michael S. Dukakis deserved to be President. He did not make a case for liberalism. He did not attempt to go down in a blaze of glory, fighting the good fight. He simply tried to wish ideology away, marching along in the hope that he could almost slip into the White House through the back door. His defeat inspires anger rather than mourning...
Frustrating for second-year Coach Mike Getman, who tried a slew of offensive combinations in an attempt to break a season-long scoring slump...
Even in the frenzied world of Wall Street dealmakers, speculator Salim ("Sandy") Lewis stood out as a talkaholic with a penchant for dispensing advice and hatching colorful schemes. Last week a federal grand jury in Manhattan charged Lewis with manipulating stock in an apparent attempt to help out American Express and its chairman, James Robinson, a longtime Lewis friend...
...from fishing and tourism. Possession of guns is outlawed, except for the fewer than 2,000 lightly armed members of the National Security Service, and violence is virtually unknown. Yet last week the capital island of Male (pronounced Mah- lay) was invaded, briefly but brutally, in an unsuccessful coup attempt carried out by foreign mercenaries...
...Foreign Minister Fathulla Jameel, several eyewitnesses identified as the leader of the band a once prominent Maldivian businessman named Abdulla Lutefi, who currently operates a farm near the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo. Several years ago, Lutefi was arrested for entering Maldives with a firearm, apparently in an attempt to overthrow Ibrahim Nasir, Gayoom's predecessor as President. Both Sri Lankan and Maldivian authorities suspect that Lutefi may have hired the Tamil mercenaries, many of whom have become increasingly inactive since India sent army troops to Sri Lanka to quell the separatist movement...