Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feeling that sometimes at these debates there is an attempt to have the best idea," incumbent candidate Henrietta E. Davis told her colleagues after about an hour of pleasant discussion...
...flurry of publicity surrounding this year's batch of Nobel prizes reminded the public of the infamous romantic story of Alfred Nobel's attempt to purify his legacy as the inventor of dynamite by establishing awards for contributions in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, economics, literature and peace...
When we welcome Chairman Jiang to campus, we should welcome the protesters, as well. But we should also struggle against our provincialism and attempt to recognize China as a rising nation with the right to chart its own future guided by its own principles. Only by doing so will we come closer to understanding China and establishing a base of mutual respect for the most important bilateral relationship of the 21st century.--Greg Pilarowski, Harvard Law School...
...Internet 2 is not the only attempt being made to speed up the Internet. It is being led primarily by universities, while the federal government has its own plan to upgrade the Internet, known as the "Next Generation Internet...
...quoted were legitimate, and the reporter engaged in neither illegal nor unethical conduct in obtaining the documents. Stephen Jones, McVeigh's lead defense lawyer at the time, put forth several tales, including one that our story was based on a fabricated document. That was untrue. TIME apparently bought Jones' attempt at damage control. If a faux pas has been committed, it certainly wasn't made by the Dallas Morning News. STUART WILK, Managing Editor Dallas Morning News Dallas TIME's trashing of the Miami Herald as a "shell of its former self" is a chomp on the ear. Sure...