Word: attempting
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...good news is that a well-designed, long-term study of HRT is finally under way. Last year, in an attempt to redress a historic shortfall in research on women's health, the National Institutes of Health launched the $628 million Women's Health Initiative. In the HRT portion of the study, which will involve 27,500 women, half will be randomly assigned to HRT, half to a placebo. Researchers will follow the women for at least eight years and compare rates of heart disease, osteoporosis, breast cancer and other ailments. When the results are reported, doctors and patients...
Morris has guided Clinton into one of the most dramatic repositionings of his career: an attempt to return to the centrist New Democrat mode of his 1992 campaign. But there is risk as well that Clinton will find himself virtually without allies. His speech sent his own party into convulsions, with some congressional Democrats privately calling him a turncoat and vilifying Morris as a kind of serpent whispering evil in the President's ear. Republicans, having grudgingly praised Clinton at first, were suggesting within a few days that he was a fraud. Their evidence: a Congressional Budget Office estimate that...
Last week's fighting looked very much like an attempt by the Bosnians to break the three-year siege. President Alija Izetbegovic almost said as much. His army, he declared, had been "ordered to undertake measures to prevent any further strangulation of the city." There was no question the Serbs' grip was throttling Sarajevo. For three weeks the city's natural gas and electricity had been cut off, and water had to be pumped by hand. Humanitarian-aid shipments were halted by the Serb blockade, and food warehouses were empty. Air shipments of supplies have been impossible for two months...
...heavy resistance from the terrorists, who held most of the hostages on the top floors. Women holding white sheets were pushed to the windows as targets. Both sides agreed to a cease-fire, and 227 hostages were freed; but shooting resumed again after five hours. When a second Russian attempt to storm the hospital failed, an uneasy stalemate settled in. Chernomyrdin moved to break the deadlock by calling rebel leader Basayev directly by telephone at the hospital to discuss conditions for the release of the hostages, including a cease-fire in the Chechen war. Yeltsin meanwhile had gone to Halifax...
...believe in some universal key orpanacea. I am not an advocate of what Karl Poppercalled "holistic social engineering," particularlybecause I had to live most of my adult life incircumstances that resulted from an attempt tocreate a holistic Marxist utopia. I know more thanenough, therefore, about efforts of this kind...