Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After two years of lackluster performance, Harvard's Loker Commons underwent yet another series of changes this summer in an attempt to draw more students to the center...
This time around, pragmatic issues led the way. Angelopoulos-Daskalaki's bid focused on fixing the high pollution, lack of infrastructure and insufficient facilities that doomed its previous attempt...
Throughout the last three months, the preeminent task at hand was to attempt to fill in all those gaps in time for the 1997~-'98 athletic seasons...
...throw out the first ball on opening day of the baseball season, for instance, I often wonder if he's tempted to put in some secret bullpen practice with a catcher whose discretion he could count on--Web Hubbell, maybe--just to reduce the chances that his first attempt to put one over the plate could panic the customers in the box seats behind third base. I wouldn't blame...
...mission ? which she chose to accept ? was to spend ten hours a day in closed-door security briefings, cart home a foot-high stack of books on the region. Now she must fly to Israel, and shuttle back and forth between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Arafat in an attempt to cool the war of words that has exploded between the two. Monday's rounding up of Islamic militants by Palestinian security teams helps her; the fact that Hamas vowed to continue suicide attacks against Israel does not. Israeli police were put on high alert in preparation for her arrival...