Word: attempted
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...particularly sorry spectacle has been the attempt of some conservatives to claim the ruling as some sort of victory. These are the same people who present Robert Bork's failed Supreme Court bid as proof of what Suzanne Garment calls in the current Commentary "[T] he liberal monopoly over the great academic institutions and even over the idea of intellectual merit itself." Whether mainstays of a "liberal monopoly" or not, those who run academic institutions have now been given the Supreme Court's go-ahead to advance their own views at the expense of all others...
...introduced in Congress last fall, so far the campaign for a hard dollar remains a shiny dream. "We're talking strictly public inertia," admits Jim Benfield, a lobbyist for the Coin Coalition, which includes copper interests and convenience stores. About half a billion of the last dollar-coin attempt, the forlorn Susan B. Anthony dollar that was issued eight years ago, collect dust in vaults across the country...
...pilot." For more than a year, Bush has clung to the classic Reagan defense: ignorance. The Vice President has insisted that although he supported the arms sales, it was only in late 1986, after the story had broken publicly, that he learned they were little more than a sordid attempt to trade for hostages, and that profits were diverted to help the Nicaraguan contras. Bush was left relatively unscarred by both the Tower commission and the reports of the congressional committees, which portrayed him as a bit player. It was not a heroic image for the Vice President...
Lloyd Webber was on his own in his next project, an audacious attempt to set T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats to music. He turned to the innovative director Trevor Nunn and the brilliant designer John Napier to transform his plotless feline frolic into the spectacular Cats. Nunn found that the increasingly confident composer's sense of musical structure was "fantastically theatrical" and that what Lloyd Webber required of his collaborators was "ways in which his musical conception could be given a narrative or some character validation...
Jean de Florette, set in the 1920s, described the attempt of the clever Papet (Yves Montand) and his dim-witted nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil)--the last remaining members of what used to be the richest and most glorious family in the region--to wrest the land of a neighboring farmer, a hunchback...