Word: attempting
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...freshman point guard is usually a source for concern for a team. Like Army, other opponents will attempt to rattle Hill with full-court pressure. Hill, for one, is not concerned...
Harrington also denied that Ackerly's First Amendment right to free speech is violated by the ordinance. And he was reluctant to infringe on a local attempt to regulate land...
...business," Kennedy said, defending his decision to attempt to create a profitable political journal...
...state appointed by the army in January 1994. Zeroual's race against three other presidential candidates was the chronicle of a victory foretold. But his victory left the North African country of 30 million as uncertain of its future as at any other time since its ill-fated first attempt to hold multiparty voting four years ago. Then, the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.) won the first round of legislative elections, which the army aborted. Cheated of victory and outlawed, F.I.S. went underground and splintered into violent armed groups whose struggle to overthrow the military plunged the country into...
Such sociological rancor can be therapeutic. But there are historical hatreds so strongly rooted, they imprison the hater. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $22.95) is the story of a young man's attempt to break from his father's inflamed obsession with anti-Semitism and its central event of this century, Hitler's Final Solution. Edgy with irony and urban humor, the book also gives a rare insider's view of an insular Jewish community that is as alien to mainstream American Jewry as it is to the rest of the country...