Word: ditched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch? Martin Wishnatsky...
...House, a bipartisan task force that tried to resolve the impasse came up empty after months of negotiations. Speaker Tom Foley and Republican leader Bob Michel last week made a last-ditch effort to achieve a compromise. Predictably, it failed. Now a bipartisan bill making such cosmetic changes as providing discounted rates for television commercials will probably pass. It will do almost nothing to curb the abuses...
...Crimson fought back fiercely from the deep ditch of defeat. Looking into the precipice, the Crimson's Albert Chang bumped off the Anteaters' Mike Roberts at fourth singles to shatter a personal three-game slide and notch the Crimson's first point...
...people receiving the drug under the alternate program were sicker than those in the clinical trials. To be eligible for DDI in the expanded tests, patients must be suffering from advanced AIDS and must be resistant to AZT. "For these people, DDI is a last-ditch effort," says Dr. Bernard Bihari of the Community Reseach Initiative, a clinic offering the drug to AIDS sufferers in New York City. Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health observes that the death rate was much lower than that found in the early trials of AZT. But the report does raise...
...last-ditch effort to budge Shamir, Washington embarked on a high- profile game, threatening Jerusalem with both diplomatic and financial pressure. When President Bush condemned the settling of Jews in Israeli- annexed East Jerusalem -- a long-standing if rarely stated U.S. policy -- Shamir pounced. "Voices in Washington have outraged every Jew," he said. "We have no obligation to blindly follow every move the U.S. makes." The Bush Administration resented Shamir's efforts to shift the blame for his downfall. "This business that the President is precipitating this is nonsense," said a senior official in Washington...