Word: attempts
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...annual U.N. climate summit at year's end, to be held in Cancún, Mexico, in November. (At the very least, if thousands of attendees are forced to wait in line outside for hours, as they were in Copenhagen, they'll get a nice tan.) Further complicating any attempt at progress is the growing sense that the U.N. process itself needs to be overhauled, especially after a handful of obstructionist countries managed to slow the Copenhagen negotiations to a crawl...
Victoria Vazquez’s Daisy is passable and unmemorable. Vazquez never quite embodies the calculated superficiality of Daisy, and instead appears artificially blank. Her attempt to capture the manipulative schoolgirl tendencies that make Daisy so dangerous and so repulsive seems immature...
...found Van Nest beyond the arc, but the big man’s shot attempt—Harvard’s only attempt in the game to take the lead—clanged...
These are my reflections, generated through individual observation and prolonged discussions with school administration officials both on and off the record. Principals and teachers expressed their desperation, and implored me to tell the world what was going on in the inner-city school system. This is my attempt...
...Connor and Caputo cruised to equally dominant victories. O’Connor (18-0) was never threatened, as he built a 6-0 lead with two takedowns and a reversal. Besides allowing an escape to attempt a final takedown, the Harvard captain enjoyed a mistake-free 8-1 major decision...