Word: attempted
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...presumably serious) students at this university. He rests on the unspoken truism that sports do little to enrich the spectator because they do not stimulate the mind. It is very hard to successfully argue the merits of football against ballet, hockey against drama, sweat against culture. I will not attempt to compare a wrestling match to a pas de deux, but I would submit that one who views either activity receives equal parts of intellectual and visceral stimulation...
...attempt to appease faculty members in the quantitative sciences about their exclusion from the Core Curriculum...
...ministers of OPEC, along with delegates from five other producing countries, met late last month in Geneva in an attempt to patch together an agreement for sopping up the glut. The nine-day marathon session degenerated into what one delegate called "a state of unprecedented disarray." Even the meeting quarters seemed a mockery of the group's onetime ability to intimidate the industrial powers. Because most of the Hotel Inter-Continental was already booked, the ministers had to cram into a tiny conference room for their meeting...
...totalitarian state, there are no innocent bystanders, no private citizens. Terrorism denies that there is any private sphere, that individuals have any rights or any autonomy separate from or beyond politics. There are thus no standards according to which the individual citizen, or the threatened society, can attempt to come to terms with the totalitarian terrorist. There is no way to satisfy his demands...
Notice to all readers who are planning to run in the Boston Marathon: We'd be interested in hearing about your times. Please call The Crimson after the race, so that your finish--or valiant attempt--can be included in our Marathon coverage...