Word: attempting
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...Cops in Shops" program is underhanded. Police officers pose as store clerks, shelf-stockers and customers while waiting for an underage person to attempt an alcohol purchase. The idea of undercover police officers camping out in convenience stores is disturbing in and of itself. Further, rather than identifying fake ID's and making their arrests based on that offense alone, the cops allow the illegal purchase of alcohol to take place so that they can tack on further charges. This seems to serve no purpose other than increasing the severity of the punishment that victims of the sting receive...
...little extra motivation to keep off the 30 pounds he has lost since summer, all he has to do is look at Bill Paxon. Paxon is the lean, boyish, irrepressibly upbeat Congressman from upstate New York who might have become Speaker of the House last July if the attempt to overthrow Gingrich had succeeded. The coup failed, Paxon was forced to resign his leadership post and Gingrich has since reasserted a semblance of control, over both his weight and his troops...
...with the finality available to Henry VIII--the thud of the headsman's ax. Still, one may wonder if Spencer was trying to display a similarly majestic, if less fatal, gesture--whether his righteous bombast against the media, delivered ostensibly to deify his sister, was not a self-interested attempt to raise himself above the prying eyes of the press. If so, he has not elevated himself high enough, as was proved last week in Cape Town, South Africa, where Spencer found himself exposed in a scandal born long before his sister's untimely death...
...result of the IMF measures could be trouble in the streets. In 1989 alone, Venezuela and Jordan were hit by riots after their governments, in an attempt to satisfy IMF requirements, ended food and fuel subsidies that had kept prices artificially low. The reaction in East Asia hasn't yet escalated to rock throwing. But in October, amid the threat of massive demonstrations, the Thai Prime Minister rescinded a fuel-tax increase that the government had adopted just three days earlier to satisfy an IMF-mandated budget surplus. "There is no long-term solution for the common people," laments Somsak...
Titanic is an attempt by a very large number of people to do something extraordinary. It was never a "no brainer" piece of pop entertainment. Unlike most of the other big productions of the year, it is neither a sequel nor the launching point of a series of sequels. It is not based on a comic book. It was not designed to spawn a vast array of toys, merchandising, video games and theme-park attractions. It is an earnest and heartfelt work. But the same voices that decry the formulaic commercialism of mainstream Hollywood product do not seem to applaud...