Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Worst Thing to Try at Home When two doctors working at Atlanta Hospital came up with a radical AIDS treatment -- heating up the patient's blood -- they let CNN know about it after just one trial. The gullible network broadcast live reports of the second attempt at treatment, giving free and favorable publicity to a farfetched, unproven medical procedure...
...reorganized Kuwait's oil industry following the government's 1975 takeover of the Kuwait Oil Co. -- a joint venture of Gulf Oil Corp. and British Petroleum. And now, to no one's surprise, it is Khalifa who is at the center of his country's most ambitious effort: the attempt to reinvent Kuwait. If implemented in its entirety, the intricate and politically tricky plan could transform the demography, character and economy of what everyone involved is calling New Kuwait...
...Bush Administration's latest attempt to flog the race issue began with the debate over the Civil Rights Act of 1990. Passed last October by congressional Democrats, with the help of some Republicans, the measure was designed to make it easier for women and minorities to combat job discrimination. The bill's supporters insisted its main effect would be to offset damage done to earlier practices by a series of Supreme Court decisions. Bush said he supported that goal but argued that the bill's specific provisions would pressure employers to adopt quotas as a means of avoiding litigation...
...gain votes. Another factor is the slippery nature of racial politics, so easy to unleash but so difficult to control. For example, the Education Department's ruling on minority scholarships, which caused consternation in both the White House and the college community, apparently sprouted from a subordinate's overzealous attempt to follow the instincts of Candidate Bush. That misjudgment was understandable, given the atmosphere encouraged by Bennett and other conservatives in the President's entourage...
Barbara's attempt to keep the spirit of peace and good cheer alive at a time of trouble is part of a long tradition. White House Christmases have often been bittersweet affairs. None was bleaker than the 1963 holiday, observed under the shadow of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Back in 1929, just a few weeks after the stock-market crash, Herbert Hoover's family was having Christmas Eve dinner when fire broke out in the west wing of the White House. As fire trucks clanged, Lou Hoover gathered her grandchildren and read them Christmas stories to calm their fears...