Word: attempt
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Each year, UC candidates flock to the largest political and cultural organizations on campus in an attempt to lock up the votes of their members, but UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10 said that based on her campaign experience, this strategy may fail to produce the expected results...
...what she really wants is her father’s approval, don’t you think?” I questioned, in an attempt to show her my genuine intellectual curiosity. Instead of encouraging my budding literary criticism skills, Miss Baker simply bristled: “Sometimes, you’re truly an airhead, Julia...
Years later, I’m an English concentrator at Harvard. Boy, did I show her! But sometimes I wonder if my decision to concentrate in English, or maybe every decision I’ve ever made, has been an attempt to show Miss Baker that I’m not, in fact, an airhead. For the past ten years, I’ve been blindly guided by the deep need to prove the Miss Bakers of the world wrong...
...same people that brought you ShuttleBoy—before theweird call in thing—rolled out a new websiteHarvardMaps in conjunction with the Undergraduate Council today. The site, part of the CS 50 network and created by CS 50 Professor David Malan, is an attempt by the UC to begin streamlining room reservation systems in all the Undergraduate Houses and other locations across campus...
...Bush Administration began the project in 2006 as the most recent attempt to stem the tide of illegal immigration, and it now nears completion; at 630 of 670 miles completed, Obama shows no signs that he intends to halt construction of the final portions. Humanitarians and budget hawks have blasted the wall as ineffective and enormously costly. With a final price tag of more than $4 billion and $6.5 billion in estimated maintenance expenses over the next 20 years, the direct, measured costs alone are immense. However, to discuss the project’s environmental impact, one must recognize...