Word: attempt
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Following another early morning postering run in the Yard, many candidates ate breakfast in Annenberg Hall yesterday, making a first attempt at reaching the crucial first-year vote. The majority of voters in past elections have been first-year students...
...Furthermore, if an attempt to change a belief were viewed as a challenge to identity, if certain subjects were simply not up for moral debate, there could be no discourse. A campus debate between Democrats and Republicans would quickly founder as soon as one side claimed for its views the unchallengeable sanction of identity...
While some coverage of local crime or tragedies is appropriate, Boston's newscasts are often indistinguishable from the prime-time dramas such as "Law and Order" that precede them, as the stations attempt to create the same type of excitement--and thus garner the same type of viewership--as network programming does...
Americans have suffered their disenfranchisement largely because of a traditional, habitual respect for the U.S. Supreme Court. They have no such instinctive respect for the Florida Supreme Court, which until yesterday they had never heard of. Its attempt to throw a presidential election by inventing post facto election law is surely a bridge too far. It begins with the justices setting themselves up as defenders of the "will of the people" against what they contemptuously call "hypertechnical reliance upon statutory provisions," or what other people call "adherence...
...time and energy individuals spend on any activity--whether it's learning to swim or mastering a body of knowledge, skills and competencies they'll be able to use in the workplace--the more they benefit," explains Indiana University professor George Kuh, who directed the project. "NSSE is an attempt to measure to what extent students use the resources that institutions provide for their learning and development...