Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baker said the U.S. should attempt to play an important role in integrating the countries of Central Europe...
...what they say is an ongoing attempt to liven up Harvard, Lester, Nanda and Thurow have played pranks on their friends throughout the school year. According to Lester, most of their jokes involve moving around the furniture of friends who are out of town...
...know the stereotypes: Adams is home to artsy, alternative types; Mather's for the jocks; Eliot is snobby and Dunster is just plain weird. "No longer!" gloats the administration. In an attempt to fight the polarization that has supposedly taken over the College and thus increase the diversity within the campus, the administration has decided that upper-class housing should not be a matter of choice (not even the four-house non-ordered variety...
...possible that this move to larger blocking groups represents an attempt to create smaller communities in place of the community once provided by the houses? Even if most first-years would not have explained their choice to live with 15 of their closest friends as emblematic of their search for community, there is a strong possibility that randomization coupled with large, socially self-sufficient blocking groups will result in a splintering of house life into smaller, more exclusive cliques, utterly undermining the potential for meaningful interaction within the houses...
Neither does the average public official. And that, friends, is why stuff like the Communications Decency Act--the Christian Coalition's attempt to remove pornography from the Internet--sails through Congress...