Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...million oz. of silver. In March, they used their $2 silver hoard to buy even more of the metal. After the market collapsed later month, the pair had to use their vast holdings, including race horses, art and antiques, as collateral to back the loans had made in their attempt to corner world silver market. A battered Hunt later said, "A billion dollars is what it used...
...time all the improbable explanations for its linkages between a fast-receding past and today's headlines have been laid out, all the false trails explored, the action lies buried under a pile of verbiage. It used to be that detective stories were lean and laconic. The attempt to give them spurious importance by having them address what are thought to be big subjects is ruining them. They really must get back to their Bogartian basics. -By Richard Schickel
...impressed was Richard Schultz Schweiker when Ronald Reagan asked him to be his vice-presidential running mate in 1976 that the Pennsylvania Senator saved and later framed the airline ticket that brought him to California for their momentous meeting. Reagan's attempt to wrest the party's presidential nomination from Gerald Ford by prematurely naming the liberal Schweiker to his ticket failed, of course, but it left an indelible mark on Schweiker. Since then he has grown steadily more conservative. Now Reagan has given Schweiker, 54, a chance to turn philosophy into policy by naming him Secretary...
...heart. Everyone the director sets to moving through Wessex clumps along very slowly, weighed down by the invisible chains of Hardy's famous Fate. His leading lady, Nastassia Kinski, a truly beautiful young woman (see last year's Stay As You Are), is further burdened by her attempt to speak with an authentic West Country accent. She does all right considering that she is German, but the effort seems to slow her speech. Or maybe she was directed to carry on portentously. Even her love scenes are handled with ludicrous discretion. One comes to imagine that...
George Teso, head of the city's traffic department, said earlier this week that the new regulations come in response to a recent attempt by a student to gain a parking permit...