Word: attempt
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Sharp says that often the major roadblock to undertaking environmentally beneficial projects is the up-front costs which must be made several years in advance of the savings from these changes. The loan fund would attempt to eliminate this barrier...
...serving as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a civil war that saw the assassination of that country's leader, Patrice Lumumba, whom Sankoh admired. After a brief and unhappy stint as a cameraman in Britain, Sankoh supported a 1971 coup attempt in Sierra Leone, was found guilty of "failing to report a mutiny" and was jailed for seven years. The humiliations were the kernels of his revolution...
...Morris Co. has been engaging in similar efforts for the past year or so. The tobacco and so-much-more company has new ads proclaiming its support of the "We Card" program to prevent children from buying cigarettes. In the ad, a bunch of kids dressed for a prom attempt to buy smokes from a kindly yet firm store owner, who tells us that belonging to the We Card program makes it easier for him to turn down the kids. There is a lacuna in logic here, but the point, apparently, is that Philip Morris opposes killing anyone until...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service agents forcibly removed Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives should be ashamed of themselves [NATION, May 1]. Were they proud when the family showered Elian with every imaginable bribe? Were they proud when the family demonized Elian's father, in a desperate attempt to keep the child in Miami? Were they proud of that heart-wrenching video of Elian demanding to stay in the U.S.? Until now, only Fidel Castro himself could have orchestrated such manipulation and brainwashing. BARRY BERGER Mission, Texas...
...brilliant sense of subtlety we get an even more devastating parody of a parody. Yes it can be done, and who better than 476 Wayans Brothers to pull it off. Scary Movie, as if not implicit in the name, is made to shock and not just with its feeble attempt at reviving Carmen Electra's career after her long and emotionally draining marriage with Denis Rodman (approximate time-five hours). And if that is not enticing enough, just the fact that 5,689,000 Wayans Brothers appear should be reason enough to sample this comedy-horror (master)piece...