Word: attempt
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...city paid for 13,000 lawn signs and 10,000 bumper stickers--among other Census paraphernalia--in an attempt to get citizens to fill out their forms. This doesn't include the government's own campaign of cheesy commercials involving a shrunken man on a monopoly board who threatens that people who don't fill out their Census "get nothing." (As if you don't already feel bad enough about forgetting to turn in your forms last month...
...disbelievers in Congress and on the CNBC pundit scene, but the financial markets are not among the heretics. So it was that Wall Street continued to rally as the Fed voted to raise short-term rates not just 25 but 50 basis points at its meeting Tuesday, the latest attempt to hamstring the swaggering U.S. economy just enough to keep inflation at bay. Businesses, especially capital-intensive ones like the dot-coms, have no love of more expensive money. But Father Greenback has sold the markets on his firm hand, says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl, and a full...
...that standard, the coolest dudes on Wall Street are famed hedge-fund manager George Soros and his chief lieutenant, Stanley Druckenmiller. Professional day traders, they got caught in the spring turmoil too--and compounded their losses by betting against the dollar, apparently in a futile attempt to make back what they had lost on plunging tech stocks. Last week Soros--best known for winning $1 billion in a bet against the British pound in 1992--publicly overhauled his firm, saying he would no longer take big risks. Druckenmiller, as chastened as those twenty-somethings, abruptly left the company...
...aware that certain kids are more at risk. A teen with a family history of suicide or depression is more likely to make an attempt. So is someone who has already made an attempt. A teen with a life-threatening illness like HIV infection or a history of physical, emotional or sexual abuse is a prime suicide candidate. Several studies have shown that gay teens are significantly more likely to try to take their own lives. A teen in a home with firearms is at greater risk, as shooting is the most frequent method chosen by adolescents to kill themselves...
...Some of Gurianova's observations are difficult to understand. In her last chapter, "Exploring Color," Gurianova writes that Rozanova's "transrational poetry is always based on two or three phonemes that she varies and arranges, playing on 'vocalic' and 'consonantal' rhymes, much as in a musical tude." Gurianova's attempt to compare the elements of art to the phonemes of language and the notes of music is confusing and does little to explain Rozanova's work...