Word: attempting
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...Prasse-Freeman picked a bad time to miss his second free throw of the evening--with 14 seconds left in the game and the Crimson trailing 58-56. Prasse-Freeman bounced his first attempt off the back of the rim before hitting the second to make...
...protests at Seattle: those who wanted environmental protections integrated into trade agreements were accompanied by those who dumped foreign steel into the ocean for the crime of being too cheap. The perception of a U.S. in favor of free trade only where it serves our interests could doom any attempt to improve environmental and labor standards abroad and must be addressed in our negotiating tactics...
...nations like El Salvador, it must join the Workers Rights Consortium of other concerned schools. This organization operates on the principles of full disclosure and transparency. Harvard's membership in the Workers Rights Consortium's rival, corporate Fair Labor Association only lends legitimacy to a wildly compromised cover-up attempt...
Bill Clinton must have been licking his chops last week when a National Academy of Sciences report listed medical error as one of the nation's leading causes of death - and called for some measure of health care reform. Clinton's foiled attempt at sweeping health care reform remains one of the great failures of his domestic agenda. And so, in an attempt to beat the rest of the political world to the punch, Clinton announced a plan Monday to drastically reduce the number of medical errors perpetrated each year, which the NAS report listed as causing upwards...
...Roman Catholic Church and its hospital systems, which proscribe abortion and other reproductive services, including birth control, morning-after pills and sterilization [HEALTH, Nov. 15]. The essence of Catholic teachings is "Follow your conscience." Along with the people who embrace other faiths, Catholics of conscience deplore the church's attempt to force them to do its will. CORINNE SABO San Antonio, Texas...