Word: attempting
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Pepsi, betraying its utter lack of good values, has resorted to bribery in its attempt to infiltrate Harvard. It is giving $10,000 each to the Undergraduate Council and PBH, plus an additional $5,000 for general student activities...
...motives of the sponsors of these new laws may be noble, or they may simply be an attempt to use the law to impose a set of values on the entire United States. Either way, we feel that the indecency law is entirely unacceptable both for practical and ideological reasons. While we agree that it is important to prevent children from accessing certain types of materials, this in no way requires the federal government to invade civil society in this manner. If the Republicans want to follow Bob Dole's lead and urge on-line companies to voluntarily regulate their...
...kill it. Microsoft, which abandoned its bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken program amid antitrust allegations, is pursuing a partnership with Visa International instead. The top software and credit card providers, respectively, said Wednesday that they would team up to offer online banking services in an attempt to break Intuit's lock on the personal-finance software market. Quicken gained its 80 percent niche by allowing users to pay their bills electronically, with the processing handled by Intuit. The Microsoft-Visa plan would allow people to pay bills directly from their bank accounts using the rival program Microsoft...
...assume a central role in shaping public policy issues of race and class." While Harvard's scholars should continue to be vocal and influential, they should not use their power in academia to silence other voices or completely dominate intellectual discussions. For example, in the past, Booker T. Washington attempted to dictate the terms for black progress, and even Du Bois sought to undermine Marcus Garvey. Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies should not attempt to institute any form of rigid ideological orthodoxy...
...plan] represents the best attempt to fill the gap between before and after rent control," Reeves said...