Both series try to salvage a bit of Latin flair.

Over the years, a series of "audit studies" have tried to measure how people perceive different names.

And the series better not try that trick again soon.

But part of what the series tries to do, he said, "is to show a young person finding a way to act in an adult world."

But on the whole the series tries to be helpful, not cruel.

Since 1991, a series of Republican governors have tried to reinstate the death penalty.

Some series, of course, are not trying to be all things to all people.

The building was vacant for decades after the banks failure while a series of owners tried and failed to find ways to use it.

This series tried to wrap up the story of Claw.

Indeed, almost every new series tried this summer, even those that eventually failed, started off much stronger than the repeats of the shows they replaced.