After months of internal wrangling and fitful attempts at compromise, the House of Representatives on Thursday will consider a long-sought bill expanding Federal assistance for child care.

Other printing houses also shut their doors to the magazine and, after fitful attempts to get back in business, it finally stopped publication last month.

Hendrik's fitful attempts to establish a life apart from his brother - this stranger who was almost myself" - cannot succeed.

Then, as the two halves grew increasingly unequal, the enmity has been characterised by bitter words, antagonistic ideologies, fitful attempts at rapprochement and, most notably, numerous defections.

His fitful attempts to present his programs as a coherent, compelling whole have been a failure.

The fitful attempt at democracy after the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 only produced a far more lethal dictatorship.

They made fitful attempts today to repeat those upsets.

The House of Love had been defunct since splitting up in 1993, with former group leader Guy Chadwick having made fitful attempts at other projects in the intervening years.

Up to now, in its fitful attempts to bring change to Afghanistan, the world has chosen to isolate the Taliban rather than engage them.

There were fitful attempts to organize strikes in support of the Gdansk strike, like the one Monday at the Ursus tractor works near Warsaw, but none took hold.