Word: attempter
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...want to give up their guns to a government they suspect views them with hostility, at a time when they fear revenge from remnants of al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. Across Iraq, many SOIs have been targeted, some killed by unknown assailants. Al-A'ghayde survived an assassination attempt in March, and his home was firebombed a few months before that. He and his men don't want civilian jobs that would not enable them to carry weapons...
...best efforts to incorporate the director, Griffith plays no part in the crime, investigation or subsequent court case. The book's epilogue, in which Griffith, Darrow, and Burns briefly walk by each other in a hotel lobby, is a stretch of the most limber sort. As is the attempt to link the bombing and the investigation's illegal detention of suspects to post-9/11 concerns. This could have made a fine story story for Vanity Fair, where Blum is a contributing editor...
Even more admirable is his attempt to get Hollywood to believe that the hybrid Toyota Prius was as hot as a Ferrari. Explains Bochner: "We just tried to position the Prius as the new sexy thing. It wasn't easy - making driving a smaller, more economic car hip was a task. So I'd just ask my friends, 'Do you love your children?' That was the linchpin in convincing them. I told them, 'The decision is yours, but the nation is watching what you want...
...long time in coming. With these sorts of opinions about the economy, it’s troubling that Paulson did not have such foresight. A Secretary of the Treasury who is unable to notice or acknowledge the symptoms of the crash should not be given an enormous sum to attempt to set us on track. It’s not surprising that his bailout solution is unpopular among economists and, according to polls, the American public. In a recent poll, 55 percent of Americans indicated that they do not favor bailing out private companies using taxpayers’ money, which...
...catches for 148 yards.But it would be the end of the first drive that would cost Harvard. After the first touchdown, junior place kicker Patrick Long’s PAT hit the bottom of the uprights and fell back onto the field. While he made good on his second attempt, the two quick scores gave the Crimson just a 13-0 lead with seven seconds gone in the second frame. “Things didn’t start out very well [for us], but incredibly, it’s also that one thing that you can find that...