Word: attempting
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...buying votes is common the world over, so is the attempt of one politician to steal his rival's thunder. Yeltsin began his campaign by promising he would not "deviate from [his reforms] a single centimeter. A halt or any attempt to reverse them," he said ominously, "would deal a crushing blow to the country from which it might never recover." But the officials most closely associated with his reforms have been fired, and more than once Yeltsin has said he is still "for reforms, but not at any price; I am for correcting the course...
...birth of the union between Communists and nationalists that some fear will transform Zyuganov's coalition into a Russian version of Hitler's National Socialist party. It also foreshadowed the failed coup by party hard-liners the following month. Although he proudly calls himself a "leading ideologist" of the attempt, Zyuganov was on vacation when it happened and he did not return to Moscow until it was over...
Marsden said the University will soon make changes to the health care options it offers in response to the mergers of several major health plans. But he said the committee, at the request of several faculty members, will attempt to preserve and expand options in the plan that offer physician choice...
...said his title quote "'If answerable style I can obtain'" was taken from the book and served as a comparison between his own creative attempt and Milton...
...administrators involved or concerned with women's issues on campus. We support the formation of this committee and hope that it will make an impact at the College, focusing more attention toward what women on campus are experiencing. However, we are worried that this committee is just another attempt to appease students at Harvard and that the students on the board will have no acting power...