Word: attempter
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...took a particular kind of character to walk into that environment and attempt to turn it around. It's hard to imagine anyone could have done it better than Tony Snow, who died July 12 at age 53 after a second battle with colon cancer...
...make do with battery-powered votive lights instead - and it also turned down her request to hold the event in a painting gallery. "They do that at the Met," she gripes. Still, Cason Thrash gushes about Loyrette, his embrace of American-style fund raising and his attempt to open up the place to a wider audience. "Henri's a visionary. He totally gets it," she says. "It's time for the Louvre to spread its wings...
...Islamic art, set to open in 2010 and partly funded by Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al Saud and French oil giant Total. The Louvre is also building a branch museum in Lens, a depressed former coal-mining town in the north, as part of Loyrette's attempt to broaden its reach within France...
...billion later, the FAA had to admit its ambitious program was an utter failure. In 1994, under Hinson, the program was canceled. In spite of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent and the manpower exerted, no new system had been produced, installed or was operating, and every attempt to see the program to its end only prolonged the disaster...
...hymen broken during a women's first experience of intercourse, or, increasingly, during demanding exercise or as a result of a collision or fall by women who've never had sex, has prompted a growing number of young betrothed women in France to make a last-ditch attempt to avoid the humiliation, repudiation, and possibly violence that could result from husbands and families discovering from blood-free bridal sheets that their wedding night had not been their first sexual experience...