Word: attempting
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Thus, University dining halls, which served about 1100 students, faced stiff competition in their attempt to attract students, and, in fact, operated "at a heavy loss to the University" in 1909, according to University President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1878 in a letter to an HDA director...
This was an attempt, although a feeble one, to introduce some people to the nationally syndicated sports radio show hosted by Jim Rome. You remember Jim Rome don't you? He used to host Talk2 on the Deuce until he called Jim Everret, then quarterback of the Rams, Chris Evert too many times. That's when Everret jumped Rome, knocked him down and led to Rome's dismissal. Same guy. Same attitude...
...Core with significant bypasses. If a student were allowed to take an introductory psychology class for biological science credit, might it not be a popular class that even senior Faculty members might devote their time to? If they were not so interested, might not the Dean of the Faculty attempt to persuade them to do so, either through the Core or outside of it? It seems that the only loser would be the Standing Committee on the Core; would its loss of power be a bad thing for Harvard education...
...ramps than to offer the kind of flexibility Wozny's boss did. That is why in March the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued guidelines to help employers navigate the fuzzy, sometimes unquantifiable arena of mental illness in the workplace. The guidelines, addressing recent case law, explain how employers should attempt to accommodate mental disabilities that don't directly compromise a worker's qualifications...
...were treated "like guinea pigs," remembered 94-year-old survivor Herman Shaw, one of eight study participants still living. When the secret experiment finally ended in 1972, 128 men had died from the disease or related complications, and scores of their wives and children had been infected. In an attempt at reparations, Clinton has pledged $200,000 for construction of a Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University and announced the creation of a Department of Health and Human Services bioethics fellowship for minority medical students...