Word: attempting
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...father, an artist, and his mother, a stage actress, both teach in a private school. They made every attempt to provide Linzee with singular educational opportunities...
Songs such as "War Child" and "Bosnia" both deal with the heavy-handed subject of war. Whereas the Irish group was well qualified to write of Belfast's destruction, they are out of their element when they attempt to focus on the Bosnian war. "When do the saints go marching in..." repeatedly intones "Bosnia", while a children's lullaby plays faintly in the background. It is commendable that the group should attempt to address such an important conflict but their constant allusions to the matter are disconcerting and somewhat glib considering their inexperience with the subject...
...With or without Dudayev," Yeltsin said last week, "we shall wind up everything in Chechnya with peace." That still seems a far-off objective. Yeltsin's March 31 announcement of a cease-fire and an attempt at new negotiations brought no apparent slowdown in the fighting. Nevertheless, early last week with visiting President Bill Clinton at his side, Yeltsin insisted that "military actions are not going on" in Chechnya. Was he lying or out of touch with reality...
...Representative Nydia Velazquez, 43, knows how easy it is for medical secrets to find their way out of a doctor's files. When Velazquez was running for Congress in 1992 to represent New York City's 12th Congressional District, someone got hold of hospital records detailing her 1991 suicide attempt and forwarded them by anonymous fax to the press. The New York Post broke the story, and Velazquez was forced to acknowledge publicly something even her family did not know: she had tried to kill herself with sleeping pills and vodka. Despite the painful publicity, she won the election...
...instructions to keep quiet. According to some reports, Mengistu has purchased other properties in Zimbabwe, and serves as a "consultant" to the country's security services. The consultancy, however, may be of a very personal nature: late last year his tight 24-hour police protection foiled an apparent assassination attempt by two suspects...