Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most recent strife results from PBHA's attempt to create a voting governing board with non-student voters, and its refusal to appoint Judith H. Kidd, the Assistant Dean of Public Service, as executive director of PBHA...
Murphy says he believes the Coop must now attempt to change the focus of its sales as it successfully did in 1971. Murphy says that the Coop must "get back to its roots" as a campus store, rather than attempting to be a department store for the general public...
...black man, will not have a single minority-themed series in its fall lineup. A fluke? Don Ohlmeyer, president of NBC West Coast, says the simple fact is none of the ethnic shows they had in development were good enough to air. "To look deeper," he adds, "is an attempt to attribute false cause and effect...
...appealing partly because he seemed to be working so hard to entertain us--songs like Hard Day featured sweaty, muscular dance rhythms; ballads like One More Try had amusingly earnest vocals. Michael's new songs are too concerned with seriousness and maturity to break a sweat. In his attempt to make music that's restrained, adult and timeless, he's instead crafted songs that seem exhausted and out of date. Listeners looking for laid-back pop-soul that smolders, intrigues and seems thoroughly contemporary should check out Everything but the Girl's supple new CD, Walking Wounded...
...northern approach to the peak, three members of an Indian expedition were stranded on their way down from the top. Their frantic comrades thought they had persuaded a late-departing Japanese group to forgo its summit attempt and stage a rescue. But when next heard from, the Japanese were announcing their successful climb. The appalled Indians believe the Japanese found all three men and left at least two to die. The Japanese called the allegations "contrary to the truth, one-sided and unjustified." Responded an adviser to the Indians: "They [the Japanese] will have to live with their consciences...