Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speakers raised a wide variety of concerns related to the WTO, in an attempt to show how far reaching the organization...
...After dinner, Mike (the Canadian techie) takes the wheel of the rental car. We are on the way back to the hotel. Six minutes later, he announces that we are lost. His attempt to take a more efficient route had failed. "It didn't make sense to go south first when we want to go north," he explains. Tom informs me that riding in a car driven by a consultant is not always the best idea, since they have a strange propensity for fender-benders. Not only do consultant drivers want to get where they're going as fast...
Some women on the faculty criticize the lack of departmental and administration response to their concerns, but this year the University is making a new attempt to address the problem...
Howard Georgi '68, Mallinckrodt professor of physics and a leader in the attempt to improve the position and numbers of women at Harvard, says that steps have been taken to remedy problems cited in the 1991 report...
Georgi, who will work this year on the University's newest attempt to woo more women to the Harvard faculty, says that the lack of senior female faculty is a problem not unique to Harvard...