Word: attempting
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Steele described this phenomena as a "stereotype threat" that causes students to overcompensate in an attempt to disprove common misconceptions of race and gender...
KINSHASA: As Laurent Kabila?s rebels entered Zaire's second largest city Lubumbashi to the sound of cheering crowds, preparing to move on Kinshasa, ailing Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko made a feeble attempt to regain the power he held for three decades, ousting the country's new prime minister Etienne Tshisekedi and naming the army chief of staff to head the government. The White House demanded that Mobutu step down and go into exile, effectively ending U.S. support of the African dictator. "Mobutuism is about to become a creature of history," White House press secretary Mike McCurry said. Tshisekedi...
...Harry Lewis, Nancy Maull, Peter Gomes, Theda Skocpol, and Daniel Steiner issued a report which PBHA Inc. interpreted as a long-term hostile takeover attempt by the Dean of the FAS. In response, long sessions were held to further strengthen PBHA Inc. leadership by forming a compact Board of Trustees which would include undergraduate and non-undergraduate members...
Despite being tethered to hardware that was state-of-the-art when color television was a novelty, the agency harvested about $1.5 trillion from more than 200 million individual and corporate taxpayers in 1996. Over the past decade it has spent nearly $4 billion in an attempt to bring its computers up to date. But Arthur Gross, the assistant IRS commissioner who is the agency's first world-class information-systems officer, concedes that the IRS's computers "do not work in the real world...
...their final Oval Office meeting, Reich describes Clinton's attempt to reach out to his old liberal friend: "'We tried, didn't we? We did some good things.' 'Oh yeah,' I say quickly. 'And you'll have four more years to do even more.' I force a smile." Clinton gives him a bear hug. Reich's book is a more complicated embrace...