Word: attempt
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...stock market over the few weeks so as to resemble--to continue in the same literary theme--a minefield. And an air of uncertainty, as any devotee of the Wall Street Journal knows, constitutes the deadliest economic poison of them all. Without getting too technical (ok, without any attempt at a sophisticated analysis) it seems as if things are going to get a lot worse before they get better...
Nyweide began to unravel in the fifth, however, when Yale captain Tony Coyne reached him for a single to center field. Nyweide balked the runner to second, and Eli third baseman Steve Duke advanced him to third on a successful bunt attempt. The next batter, right fielder Keith Reams, singled to left to bring the first run home...
...about being popular," Cochran added. Don't let anyone ever tell you about playing the race card, because that's just an attempt by other people to keep people from talking about [race...
...Balearic island sunset rather than dancing on a club floor-and the duo's party-moving credentials were yet to be established. Choosing to come into town on a Monday night to play a DJ set was thus perhaps not the best way to showcase the Armada's attempt to conquer America: publicists were on hand to give out free copies of Vertigo, but almost everyone in the small, 60-strong crowd seemed to already be an album-owning...
...movie itself has gotten hosed in the media. Sadly, the soundtrack isn't much better. Saturated with uninspiring and uninspired R&B and R&B-tinged rap from the likes of Joe, Destiny's Child and Ginuwine, the album never manages to transcend the well-packaged, well-polished attempt at violent commercial success that the movie...