Word: attempter
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...Madagascar This is that crappy song the band played when I was at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards and they sucked and he was fat and out of breath and I kept saying I was pretty sure it was a fake Axl Rose. It's Axl's attempt to do Led Zeppelin's Kashmir. It's vaguely Middle Eastern and slow and bombastic and a little trippy. But it's boring. And why does it end with all those clips of Martin Luther King Jr.? Grade...
...this financial finagling: to pocket the difference between the $400,000 loan and the actual $216,000 purchase price, and then simply abandon the home and force the banks to foreclose - sticking them with property worth far less than the amount they had loaned. It was a textbook attempt to beat the system: fraudulent paperwork, straw borrowers, all concocted by real estate professionals...
...Turks who live here with us," Chancellor Merkel, an avid soccer fan, said after the game. She added: "The Turks played a good game and one has to compliment them for that. But I am especially glad that we won!" Turkey, which is facing a political crisis over the attempt by the secularist courts to ban the ruling party allegedly for flirting with political Islam, put aside controversies to pull together to cheer the home team...
...Phillabaum's motion has drawn particular attention because of its implication that attorneys weep crocodile tears in a calculated attempt to manipulate juries. Howard vehemently denies this accusation. "They're alleging that I cry on cue and that I've been trained to do this. Nothing could be further from the truth," he told TIME. "In a death penalty case, as strongly as I feel for my clients and as much time and energy as I've put in, it happens...
...Ohio case reflects a long-standing uncertainty about the role of emotion in the application of the law, according to Doug Berman, an Ohio State University law professor and criminal-sentencing expert. He says that Phillabaum's motion is "part of a perhaps misguided attempt to suggest that the law is all rational and not based on emotion...