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True to form, Clinton also triangulated some Republican issues, most notably a proposal to end the "marriage penalty" as part of a $250 billion, 10-year tax cut (about the same amount as he unsuccessfully pushed last year, the Journal notes) and a plan to encourage charitable contributions through tax incentives.
At 8:23, the dispatcher tried unsuccessfully to contact the aircraft.
In Robin Cook's semi-autobiographical book, The Year of the Intern (1973), the protagonist takes aim with an epinephrine-filled syringe at the still heart of a patient who moments before he had unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate.
"During the five years of research for this book, I tried unsuccessfully to find out how General Dynamics learned of Judith Exner's ties to Jack Kennedy," he writes.
For instance, it sought unsuccessfully to require that CIA security checks be completed before naturalization applications were approved.