Word: attempted
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When the U.S. Government used a new antiterrorism law to attempt to shut down the Palestine Liberation Organization's United Nations observer mission last December, the U.N. was outraged. In a rare show of unity, the members, Israel excepted, voted that the U.S. action violated the headquarters agreement signed when the world body moved to New York City...
...announced resignation of Attorney General Edwin Meese III Tuesday was seen by many people as an attempt by Meese and the Reagan Administration to minimize the so-called "sleaze factor" before it damages the presidential aspirations of Vice President George Bush...
...Harvard Graduate School of Education has joined eight other institutions in an unprecedented $3 million program that will attempt to increase the number of Black school-teachers, coordinators of the program said this week...
While the Stark and Vincennes tragedies underscore the difficulties inherent in any international peacekeeping attempt, they should not be used as an argument against the existing policy...
...most of them were in opposition to the PRI, they were resigned to the fact that as it had won for the past six decades, so it would win again. I was left with the impression that many Mexican people did not feel any good would come of any attempt to change...