Word: attempter
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...surprise - the state had actually planned on suing the EPA two weeks earlier, but had delayed the move because of California's wildfires, which themselves pumped up to 8 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. But the ultimate outcome of the lawsuit, and California's attempt to craft far-reaching emission standards, is less predictable. U.S. automakers are waging their own court battles against the regulations, and in September, a U.S. federal judge threw out a California state lawsuit that tried to hold auto manufacturers liable for the damages caused by carbon emissions. But in a separate case...
...perceived as a departure from the country's long-standing approach of seeking pragmatic solutions that aim to reduce the harm of drug use. Questions of drug legality here are hardly a matter of principle. Relatively light drugs as marijuana are not prosecuted in an attempt to isolate their use from that of more addictive drugs, and health services trade used heroin needles for fresh ones to prevent the spread of diseases like AIDS...
Author and neurologist Oliver Sacks knows all this - and too much else besides, to attempt any glib definitions. On the first page of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, he writes that music "has no concepts, makes no propositions; it lacks images, symbols, the stuff of language. It has no power of representation. It has no necessary relation to the world." His book is ostensibly just a survey of research and case histories of patients whose inner lives have been fundamentally changed by music. Yet in revealing the exquisite complexity of the ways in which our minds are attuned...
...Since then, science has shown there is little difference between the two cocaine variants, but that didn't change the way the law treated them. Congress blocked the Commission's first attempt, in 1995, to reduce the sentencing disparity and so far has refused to change the laws that disproportionately affect low-level crack offenders. So while the new guidelines have reduced the penalties above the mandatory minimums, those minimums are still firmly in place...
...puck with his glove, keeping the score at 2-1. In the third period, the Golden Knights outshot Harvard, 6-5, but Richter pulled through with a series of difficult stops in the last 10 minutes of play. With the toe of his right pad, he kept out an attempt by forward Nick Dodge and quickly turned around to kick away a shot from forward David Cayer. Though the Crimson failed to beat last season’s nemesis, its strong defense carried over to the next night’s game against St. Lawrence. Richter’s stops...