Word: attempt
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...aesthetically degenerate “townies” with the opportunity to indulge in their senses. The wine tasting event (clearly appealing to an arriviste set) was pompously entitled “The Chianti Wars.” In retrospect, it was very Christian and noble of them: an attempt to stem the inevitable tide of a decaying Western Civilization, as evinced by Dan, the transvestite who sat to the left of our fearless author. Perhaps I was overcome by a certain nostalgie de la bou. Perhaps, in my infinite naiveté, I thought I might actually resolve, once...
...renovation, which took three weeks to complete, was an attempt to address students' dissatisfaction with the Law School athletic facilities. In a survey conducted by McKinsey and Co., students rated their satisfaction with athletic facilities a 1.5 on a scale of one to seven on average...
...rest of the day, whenever I told anyone where I would be living, I was met with the same response: a thinly veiled attempt to conceal a "glad-it's-you-and-not-me" smirk accompanied by a fumbling effort to express condolences. Cue that newfound Quad pride again. I didn't want this River-pity--since when do fireplaces and wood paneling give someone such a superiority complex...
Last week's poll is one of a yearlong series conducted by the Shorenstein Center that began in November. The polls are part of the center's Vanishing Voter project, an attempt to track voter involvement with the campaign in hopes of providing research-based proposals for reforming the presidential election process...
...revoking Lazaro Gonzalez's custody and issuing a legally binding order to hand over Elian. All that would remain between Elian and his father, then, would be the hundreds of demonstrators who gather daily outside Lazaro's house, practicing passive resistance techniques and vowing to disrupt any attempt to remove Elian. But their position could quickly become untenable once it fell on the wrong side of the law. Still, while losing his mother was a trauma suffered by Elian alone, regaining his father may well become a trauma for a whole city...