Word: attempt
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...attack on Bush's support for the Museum of the Confederacy is fundamentally different from the debates over the custom of flying Confederate flag in South Carolina, which was not even a genuine tradition but a crude attempt to spite the Civil Rights Movement. The debate over the flag was a debate over what image a state government should project to all its citizens, and such images can and should change as the sensibilities of the people change...
These two voices encapsulate the conflict of East Cambridge at the start of the new millennium, as residents attempt to preserve the area's history while continuing to grow and develop--and attempt to strike a balance between...
...while her store has been fairly successful, Jaquerano says her daughter's attempt to open a bakery down the street was thwarted because she is from El Salvador...
...currency, which was introduced in 1998 with a value greater than $1. "There's concern in Washington that a German-run IMF will put pressure on the U.S. economy to help build up the Euro. So a lot of people in the E.U. say this is an attempt to make sure that doesn't happen...
...TIME Brussels bureau chief James Graff. "There are so many areas where the U.S. looks as though it's trying to assert unilateral power. It doesn't need another one." While Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has asked the E.U. not to take the Koch-Weser rebuke as an attempt to keep Fischer in power, it appears Schroeder will have to resign himself to the fact that the next IMF chief will not be a German. "There's always the chance with a situation like this," notes Graff, "that if they can't decide on a candidate from a major...