Word: attempting
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According to Oberman, employers also plan to increase their on-campus recruiting by one percent in an attempt to hire more college graduates...
...Hate Las Vegas Anymore" is writer/director Caveh Zahedi's homemade documentary about his road trip to Las Vegas with his estranged father and half-brother. It also offers Zahedi's attempt to prove the existence of God by simply letting the film happen without the conventional constraints of a script or even an intended plot...
Zahedi's problem is two-fold: he can't let go of control when he wants to, but when he does consciously attempt to take over, he fails. The audience experiences both these inabilities on the trip to Vegas. In the car, Bobby panics because to the evident lack of interesting events. He decides to reenact a scene where Amin yells at George, abandoning his entire premise for the movie. But the reenactment sounds contrived and Bobby despairs. The bumpy and tire-some car ride finally ends in their Las Vegas hotel suite...
...Amin's anger and irritation with Bobby for trying to coerce a 63-year-old man with a heart condition to take a dangerous drug. Even more amazing is Bobby's impotence in effecting his desired outcome. Indeed this movie purports to follow spontaneous scenarios, but when Bobby does attempt to control his family, he only succeeds in torturing them and the audience...
Republican legislators did not voice the legitimate criticisms of direct student lending. Instead, they served as the surrogates of lenders who could hire writers and pollsters and even intimidate college administrators in their desperate attempt to maintain a wasteful system. Yes, even the votes of Republican legislators were for sale--many received generous campaign contributions from the industry that wanted to maintain its obscene profits from government subsidies. Of course, these charges are simplified, but they are backed up by a mountain of evidence. An article in the November 30 issue of Rolling Stone magazine details this legal but sickening...