Word: attempt
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...their rematch, the district attorneys will again attempt to demonstrate that Goldstein resents his mother and harbors violent feelings toward women. According to them, Goldstein shoved Webdale because he was angry at another blond woman who had just rebuffed his attempts to engage her in conversation, and is using mental illness as an excuse, playacting at being...
...Amoco is being targeted for its attempt to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
...There are some structures Spyder just simply won't attempt. For one thing, Spyder says, he'll never do anything to get himself kicked out, like going up on the crane. Furthermore, he won't go on churches, and for good reason. "I don't believe in higher powers, but I don't want to piss anyone off." He continues, "It's an agnostic kinda thing, I guess. If I'm wrong, I don't want to be really wrong...
...Mashantucket Pequots. The museum seems to make even less sense in the context of its surroundings than the nearby casino and hotel complex. Designed by New York's Paul Jacob Parkers, who reveals himself here to be the poor man's Frank Gehry, the building makes little attempt externally to interact with its environment, strange given the emphasis one would expect to be placed on such a dialogue here on the rez. Things get both better and worse on the museum's inside. A spiral ramp draws the visitor artfully from the large atrium that dominates the entrance level...
...people of Yugoslavia may one day rise to the streets again just like they did in hundreds of thousands during the winter of 1996-97. But they will attempt to overthrow the detested Milosevic only when they are assured free elections, elections that will provide them with leaders who will protect their interests and show a real effort to establish democratic institutions in the country. Until then, they will continue to live in fear from both their own mafia-infested regime and the international community...