Word: attempting
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...Campaign that is sponsoring a counter-conference to the Summit, "the [President's] summit is all hoopla and propaganda." Becker and the thousands that joined him claim that the President's conference and the campaign for which it is a kick-off are a paltry and thinly-veiled attempt to justify both the reduction in government aid to the needy in our country and the downsizing and mass lay-offs occurring in major corporations. As Becker explained: "Charity and volunteerism, however noble, can't make up the difference in damage caused by the new welfare legislation." The concern among...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Although President Clinton will attempt to soften growing tensions between the U.S. and Mexico on immigration and the drug war on his trip to Mexico Monday, his chief mission will be to trumpet NAFTA's successes as he tries to extend the free trade agreement to all of Latin America by 2005. The President wants Congressional renewal of his "fast-track" authority, which gives Congress the power only to vote yes or no on trade pacts, with no chance to amend them. It will be a tough sell. Although the Administration can show positive numbers from the agreement...
...trying to suggest that Harvard has a wonderful social scene and that there is no need for events such as Springfest. Far from it. What I'm getting at is that the council's latest attempt to get people out of doors and into the sunlight would have been just as successful without spending $8500 on a band that a majority of students hadn't even heard...
Last fall, I co-sponsored a referendum that would have moved the council in this direction. It would have allowed students the chance to directly increase the council's allocation to student groups. Unfortunately, accusations of 'politics' were thrown about in an attempt to subvert the will of the student body...
...rest of the Brocks' friends arrive, couple by couple (four total), the guests already present try to prevent the newcomers from learning of Charlie's apparent suicide attempt--for attempted suicide is a criminal offense and, more importantly, a potential scandal for poor Charlie and Myra, not to mention the guests. But the bumbling attempts at a cover-up, further jeopardized by a second, accidental gunshot, dissolve into utter chaos with the end of Act One. Act Two confronts all the couples with the necessity of explaining matters to a pair of police officers...