Word: attempting
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...settlement will not spare the FBI from Senate hearings scheduled for next month by Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, a Republican presidential hopeful who wants to determine just how the attempt to arrest Weaver on a weapons charge got so spectacularly out of hand. For one thing, Specter wants to shed light on a central controversy: Who approved radically revised rules of engagement for the incident? Those orders let agents shoot to kill any armed male spotted in the open. Regulations ordinarily allow deadly force only in the face of immediate physical danger. "I bridle at the inability to find answers...
University officials say the new position isintended to be one of support and should not beviewed as an attempt to "micromanage" theorganization...
Last Wednesday, Lilia Fagundes, 40, was shot once in the chest in her grocery store on Prospect St. during an apparent robbery attempt...
Calling Harvard's record on tenuring women "quite a good one," President Neil L. Rudenstine last week criticized a recent attempt by the Radcliffe Class of 1960 to withhold its class gift in protest of Harvard's lack of female faculty...
...class's attempt to retain the gift in an escrow fund was unsuccessful, however, because the money had already been given to the University...