Word: attempter
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Before long, however, population growth was taking a toll on the nation's food supply. In 1955 officials launched a campaign to promote birth control, only to have their efforts reversed in 1958 by the Great Leap Forward - Mao's disastrous attempt to rapidly convert China into a modern industrialized state. "A larger population means greater manpower," reasoned Hu Yaobang, secretary of the Communist Youth League, at a national conference of youth work representatives that April. "The force of 600 million liberated people is tens of thousands of times stronger than a nuclear explosion...
...first Amaker recruit to commit to the 2010 class, Brown gives the third-year coach a solid start in his attempt to bring in three consecutive highly-regarded recruiting classes...
...European Union has tried to topple the VW law, which it calls protectionist, but in 2008 Germany passed a revised VW law that granted Lower Saxony a veto right in the event of a takeover attempt. Wiedeking underestimated Wulff and the political nature of the battle. That made failure almost inevitable. Still, the money will help soothe his current woes...
...speak in the past tense, since Heigl comes near to emptying her reserves of goodwill with a disastrous new concoction called The Ugly Truth. In its wan attempt to be raunchy, the picture fails where Judd Apatow has usually succeeded; written by three women, this is a girl's mistaken idea of an R-rated comedy. Heigl, as star and executive producer, doesn't do herself any favors either. She spends virtually the entire movie getting mocked up and knocked out. (See TIME's review of (500) Days of Summer...
...Haas said the panel would attempt to "look at the situation in its totality," try to provide a factual basis for what transpired, and give recommendations for improvements within the department when faced with similar circumstances in the future. Nevertheless, Haas said that the Department had been "deeply pained" by recent criticism of the police's handling of the incident—including from President Barack Obama—and added that the department took its professionalism seriously. He said that such attention is "not the kind of notoriety we want to come to this city," and maintained that Sergeant...