Word: attempting
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EntreMed can now attempt to produce angiostatin itself, as it does endostatin, or license it to another company...
...errant Bulldog clearing attempt bounced offa skate right to Millar, who was standing at theright faceoff circle. Millar took a huge windupand blasted it past Yale senior goaltender AlexWestlund...
Congress's first attempt at banning indecent cyberspeech, the sweeping Communications Decency Act of 1996, was struck down by the Supreme Court. The Child Online Protection Act is a narrower law, focused on commercial websites that don't restrict access to minors. It spares sites from prosecution if they require visitors to provide credit-card numbers or proof, via age-verification programs, that they're adults...
Another problem is the piecemeal way in which these tests are developed, with no attempt to coordinate them nationally. Last month Achieve Inc., a bipartisan resource center on standards, was host to a conference in Washington, where representatives from 20 states pledged to work toward a shared national standard by offering uniform exam questions. In the meantime, students like Lajoi probably have less to worry about than the people in charge of teaching them. The Maryland board of education has just targeted three elementary schools in Prince George's County for state takeover because of poor test results...
...famous eulogy that closes the play is perhaps its cruelest joke. Despite Charley's attempt to ennoble him, Willy's downfall is unrelievedly bleak. (Hardly anyone even shows up at his funeral!) "My God, it's so sad," director Elia Kazan exclaimed to Miller after reading the play for the first time. "It's supposed to be sad," Miller replied. That it continues to fascinate us is testimony to Miller's ability to pack so much--heartbreaking family drama, an Ibsenian tragedy of illusions shattered, an indictment of American capitalism--into one beaten-down figure with a sample case. After...