Word: attempting
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...well. In 1964 she assured Johnson that while the Post would not break with its policy of nonendorsement, she "was for him" personally and even wanted to contribute to his campaign--a conversation that "embarrasses me now." So does a "sniveling little note" she later wrote in an attempt to mend fences with Vice President Spiro Agnew. She attributes the gesture to "that good old-fashioned encumbrance of mine, the desire to please...
Laurel G. Rayburn '00 said she was given excellent care on one overnight stay, but was disturbed by another visit in which a doctor botched an attempt to take her pulse...
...taken over the past 30 months to keep decision-making authority as close to University Hall as possible: It removed the final shred of choice students had in upper-class housing selection; it imposed a rigid, centralized bureaucratic structure on Harvard's largest student organization; it rebuffed an attempt to make its Ad Board more accountable to students; it's dean of students threatened to intervene in a referendum administered by the students government; its dean of the College urged the Faculty--the Faculty! --to re-evaluate the students government, which should derive its authority from students in the first...
Critics say this is an attempt to get pop music-loving kids to smoke. "Ninety percent of smokers began before age 18," says Brian Ruberry, spokesperson for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "As FDA rules take away more weapons, tobacco companies need to find a way to reach kids...
...maybe it's best to turn back to the people who have been there, who have gotten her where she is and know what's best for her." At the hospital, Young says, Baiul asked him, "What do I do to correct this mistake?" He adds, "There was no attempt on her part to say, 'Make it go away, can you make it better?' It was, 'Yes, I was driving. Yes, it happened.'" Baiul faces possible jail time, temporary license suspension and up to a $1,300 fine. Says Petrenko: "If she wants it, she will get good advice...