Word: attempting
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Fried refused yesterday to discuss the charges. But according to the rent board documents. Fried did in fact attempt in 1987 to raise his tenant's rent from $1,500--the legal limit...
President Clinton used the fourth prime-time news conference of his presidency in an attempt to retake the initiative in a political scene that has increasingly been dominated by Newt Gingrich and the Contract with America. When asked about the troubled nomination of Dr. Henry Foster, the President said he would "go to the mat" for his nominee for Surgeon General. Clinton downplayed the fact that his press conference was only picked up by one major network, saying "I am relevant. The Constitution gives me relevance. A president, especially an activist president has relevance." Clinton sought to paint himself...
...were killed when their Air Force C-21 plane exploded near Alexander City, Alabama. The seven other victims were all military personnel, including Air Force Maj. Gen. Glenn A. Profitt II. En route from Maryland to San Antonio, the plane experienced an unknown emergency that forced the pilot to attempt an unscheduled landing at the Alexander City airport. The cause of the explosion is not yet known. The Air Force is investigating. Fiester was secretary in charge of acquisitions for the Air Force. TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson says Fiester's loss leaves the Air Force without an important ally...
Without corroborating evidence, Loftus says, an accurate memory cannot be distinguished from an imagined one. But therapists often feel that it is not their job to judge their patients' credibility. That's a mistake, says Dr. Paul McHugh, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Medical School. "By not making an attempt to find additional confirmation for what the patient is telling you, you are ultimately saying that you believe the patient simply because the patient's feelings are so intense," he says. And yet, he adds, "feelings can mislead...
Simpson defense attorney Robert Shapiropublicly apologized in the courtroom to police criminalist Dennis Fung and "all my friends in the Asian-American community" for sarcastic comments he made while handing out fortune cookies last week. Once the trial got underway, prosecutors began their attempt to rehabilitate Fung by screening time-coded videotape that shows that Fung was indeed givenblood samplesby Detective Philip Vannatter the evening after the murders and that Fung's assistant Andrea Mazzola carried the blood samples out of Nicole Simpson's home. The defense last week showed a videotape of its own to support their contention that...