Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former cabinet member declined to accept a salary during her first year at the Red Cross as an attempt to provide an incentive for others to volunteer for charitable organizations...
Epps watched from afar as Glimp's final attempt to end the standoff was unsuccessful, and the state police began to force their...
...describes the process of "hearing out people's complaints and explaining very patiently what [The Crimson] did" as an attempt to close "unbridgeable gulfs." Fallows describes his role as acting as the "shock absorber" between the newspaper and the administration...
...largely on the body of scholarship they have managed to produce--hence the saying, "publish or perish"--with all other qualifications playing a minor role in the procedure. While the tenure process requires multiple rounds of evaluations of a tenure candidate's scholarship, the University makes no such formal attempt to gauge a candidate's teaching skill...
...pick as a pet project a prickly subject so often swept under the rug? The conference, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan, "was an attempt by her to forge an image of herself" early in the presidential sweepstakes. Gore, a longtime -- albeit low-key -- advocate for the mentally ill, has recently acknowledged having suffered from depression. With the possible stigma of that ordeal very much in mind, says Branegan, the gathering "was also one way to get out in front of her battle" before it could become an issue for her husband?s campaign...