Word: attempted
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...grandparents can partake only vicariously in this newfound diversity. They worked hard to ensure that this current pool of talented and diverse students would be available; this was their contribution to Harvard. Asking them to donate money would be an attempt to profit from their pride in their offspring...
Other Noriega confidants speculated that the general might be willing to step down -- provided Washington drops its drug indictments against him. That is a condition that Reagan accepted a year ago but that Bush has rejected. Noriega may attempt to reopen negotiations with the U.S. on that matter, if only to buy time. Unless a solution can be found quickly, Bush, like Reagan, could find himself sinking ever deeper into a frustrating brawl with a dictator whom few care for but no one knows...
...respond constructively to threats. Each time the Reagan Administration rattled a saber, he dug in harder. The most promising effort to negotiate Noriega's departure was engineered last year by Spain and Venezuela, which listened attentively to his demands and appreciated the need for face-saving measures. That attempt was cut short by disagreements over who would handle Noriega's exodus...
Inigo Jones, court architect and masquemaker to the Stuarts, was undoubtedly a genius; but except by name he is not a well-known genius in America, since he built nothing outside England and no attempt, until now, has been made to gather a full exhibition of his drawings. But he was the great English all- rounder of the 17th century: designer, painter, mathematician, engineer and antiquarian...
Benno Schmidt isn't tense. He can pitifully attempt to compensate for his incompetence as an administrator by screaming anti-Harvard slurs in a greasy pizza place renowned for selling alcohol to minors. As a consequence, Yale isn't tense. Just ask my friend David at Yale, who is quite relaxed. (He's also done with finals...