Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposing viewpoints, as one would expect in an academic forum. Several of the speakers do not even have any particular expertise on the proposed topic. Though the forum is promoted as an intellectual exercise with the noble goal of opposing racism, it is more a not-so-subtle attempt to discredit Israel...
Then they hit play. They groan as a corner kick flies into the middle of the penalty box. They cringe as Brown halfback Suzanne Bailey nails a header towards the far post. They shudder as Crimson back Amy Weinstein dashes across the goal in a desperate save attempt. They watch in horror as the ball trickles across the line...
...Agha, who heads the Cambridge Committee for Responsible Research, said the measure was an attempt to "open places to public scrutiny...
...contrast, the Crimson, a quicker and better-disciplined squad, will attempt to play a conservative possession game...
...battle for fiscal discipline quickly degenerated into a familiar attempt to shift the blame for failure -- not only between parties and branches of Government but also onto the Gramm-Rudman procedure itself...