Word: attempted
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...Hopkins' suit dramatizes the dilemma faced by many professional women who attempt to walk the narrow line between appearing serious and seeming overly severe. "Men in fields that have long been dominated by males tend to expect women to act both feminine and businesslike," says Herma Hill Kay, a sex- discrimination expert at the University of California, Berkeley. "I think they don't realize they're sending out conflicting messages...
...Shamir would quell the intifadeh, which has taken the lives of more than 300 Palestinians and seven Israelis since December 1987, remains uncertain. He might push autonomy in an attempt to disarm the rebellion but forestall any grander political or territorial concessions. If nothing else worked, he might reverse his previous opposition and adopt a strategy proposed by Ariel Sharon, one of the hawks in his party. The Sharon scheme calls for Israel to incorporate unilaterally the Jewish settlement areas in the territories as well as land deemed necessary for security. Then it would withdraw its military forces from...
...conference in Constantinople on "The Cultures of the Black Sea Shores in the Middle Ages," Pavic reveals, several scholars of the Khazar question attempted to pool their separated understandings of the Khazars. These scholars are the last heroes of the Dictionary, and, like their medieval predecessors, their desire to understand the Khazars leads them across cultural boundaries. The scholars' attempt to bring different traditions together is relevant to the 20th century Middle East. As Pavic's Dictionary chronicles the assimilation of the Khazars and their confrontations with other cultures, Pavic seems to plead for unity in the Middle East without...
Philipp Jenninger referred to Hitler's early years as a "triumphal procession" in an address that also condemned the Nazi attempt to annihilate European Jews...
...cigarette companies to increase their profits and their influence over smoking policies. He writes that as companies like Reynolds have merged with Nabisco, they have dictated national policies, becoming like spiders with tentacles of influence in interests as diverse as food and appliances. When any of its subsidiary companies attempt to ban smoking in their offices, the tobacco industry imposes hardships on them...