Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale's last play, Compas once again defended on a pass attempt to Borden...
...seem like Yale would ever be able to score after junior Joe Weidle blocked the field goal attempt...
...Amico, said Fahey was "nervous and frightened that [Capano] might harm her." D'Amico said Fahey once jumped out of Capano's car after he grabbed her neck when she tried to end the affair. A close friend of Fahey's, Kim Horstman, said that after another break-up attempt, Capano took back some of the gifts he had lavished on Fahey, saying, "No man is going to watch the TV that I gave you or see you in the dresses I gave you." Fahey's therapist at the time of her disappearance, Michele Sullivan, urged her to report Capano...
...from the consent of his people but from firing squads and torture chambers. He has ordered the death of tens of thousands and used cyanide, nerve gas and mustard gas against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Trained as an assassin--while a young man he took part in a 1959 attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister--he once ordered a hit on George Bush. He has tried to build atom bombs and, U.N. inspectors believe, he is working to amass a stock of nerve gas and germ weapons. Finally--and this is crucial--he himself is the problem. Iraq experts agree...
...children. Kathryn Montgomery, president of a leading advocacy group called the Center for Media Education, welcomes the new programming. "When they do it well," she says, "it really can educate kids. There's research on it that shows that it does enhance learning." Like their predecessors, the new shows attempt to foster the social, moral and cognitive development of their viewers. Each episode usually imparts a specific lesson, whether it be about friendship or lying or sibling rivalry or the risk of going down the drain with the bathwater. Psychologists and educators serve as consultants (this has become a small...