Word: attempting
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...attempt to muster support for his formerclient, Sheehan sent letters to prominentindividuals in the UFO community, appealing fortheir support and testimony. In the letter,obtained by The Crimson, Sheehan provides excerptsfrom the committee's "Draft Report" along with hisown commentary regarding its objectives andmotives...
...Republicans, of course, are about to attempt a George Aiken on the whole populist rebellion. Aiken was the Senator who suggested ending the Vietnam War by declaring victory and coming home. With the completion of their "Contract with America," the Republicans will say: we promised to do 10 things and we did them, or at least we came close. They will argue that they have shown how Washington politicians can effectively serve the public interest-even as they continue to argue that Washington is a fetid swamp that infects all who enter it, and that the Federal Government...
Thomas' 21st Century Blues from da Hood, with its unusual but mostly successful attempt to combine blues and rap, is the most ambitious of the three new CDs. His songs boast a crunching blues beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos. Thomas, 29, tries to bring the blues into the present. As he sings on the title track, "Whoever says the blues was dead/ Needs to come where I'm from where the streets are red." It's a gutsy album that works best when Thomas stops rapping and lets his music do the talking...
...concentrated on issues which haven't been addressed in the literature [surrounding the debate], namely the meaning of 'genetic," said Bruce L. Gottlieb '97, who is a Crimson editor. "He also made an attempt to take account of interaction between genetic and environmental factors which may not be strictly linear...
...writes: "Martin Luther King's dream was that his children would live in a land where they would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Thanks to affirmative action...we now judge everybody by the color of their skin." In our attempt to build a united society that would truly be color-blind, we have created a society that is wracked by painful and potentially dangerous divisions along the lines of race...