Word: attempt
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...site in mid-January, probably as an attempt to target voters in the northeast in hopes of gaining votes in the New Hampshire Primary, Dona Kim said...
...They showed Black Sunday [Frankenheimer's 1977 thriller in which terrorists attempt to blow up the Super Bowl] yesterday...
Alex M. Rampell '03, founder of Rampell Software, Inc., says he appreciates the attempt to give start-up companies more importance in the College's career services department...
...movie, eKids,ii focuses on the problems of self-doubt facing a young, female painter, Alex. As a character whose lack of image had made her remain outside the mainstream high school community, Alex is taken aback when the popular, iparty girls,i at her Los Angeles high school attempt to integrate her into their social strata. Thrown into the milieu is Sage, Alexis best friend, a savvy nymphomaniac, and Curtis, the cute new boy who has just left Colorado to escape the haunting memory of his fatheris death...
...will be wildly ironic if the end result of the attempt to replace the Wasp elite with a new one of philosopher-kings is, instead, a return of the plutocracy that was upended by the Wasps a century ago. Many of the best-known Wasp grandees (like Averell Harriman) spent their life trying to undo what their plutocrat fathers had done. The creators of the succeeding admissions-test elite wanted to take decision-making power about who got to the top away from the marketplace and give it to the schools. If the country has decided it would be neat...