Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mary Bono, the committee's newest member, has chosen the role of designated Everymom to show how decent folk live. The nonlawyer, as she repeatedly describes herself, cuts through the Capitol's moral sophistry in her attempt to convince Americans why they should be in favor of impeachment. Heck, she even managed to work Furby dolls into her questioning. But interviews outside the committee show she has been miscast. In TV Guide she gratuitously criticized her late husband, saying how insecure and difficult he actually was and that she's happily dating a country-music star who has "centered...
...they'd react to a terrorist attack in the nation's capital. They settled in that Wednesday morning to consider four scenarios: a car-bomb attack, a chemical-weapons strike on a Washington Redskins football game, the planting of an explosive device in a federal building and an assassination attempt on Madeleine Albright, the Secretary of State. But the war game--intended to help the agencies practice working together--quickly melted down into interagency squabbling and finger pointing...
Southwest's San Antonio mold problem dates back to the 1980s, but the first clean-up attempt wasn't made until 1994. By that time, workers say, fungi were literally dropping out of the ceiling vents into their coffee. When the fabric used as a wall covering was removed, the wallboards underneath were coated with black mold. All the renovations, including removal and replacement of mold-infested carpeting, ceiling tiles and wallboards, and chemical scouring of the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system, were done while employees were working...
...Fails in his attempt to become Governor Mario Cuomo's running mate...
...movies--his astonishing re-creation of the Omaha Beach landing--he forces us to wonder if any cause can justify such carnage. It is a measure of his growth as a questioning humanist that the rest of his tense, brilliantly wrought epic puts men in mortal peril as they attempt to rescue a soldier whose life is no more valuable than theirs, then shows us how honor can be wrested from absurdity by common decency and modest dutifulness...