Word: effort
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...countries will be pressing the bank to lower interest rates and keep them down, in coordination with the U.S. Federal Reserve. (Early in the month, all 11 countries, for the first time, cut interest rates simultaneously.) Sharp fluctuations in exchange rates would be a very unwelcome complication to this effort. So, Putnam predicts, financial technocrats will get involved. "Instead of getting wild swings, we may end up with fixed exchange rates" between the euro and the dollar, set by tacit agreement between the Fed and the Euroland bank...
...they might have U.S.-made Stinger missiles left over from the Afghan war. Worse, intelligence officials discovered that by 1993 bin Laden had begun hunting for nuclear weapons. First on his shopping list was a Russian nuclear warhead he hoped to buy on the black market. He abandoned that effort when no warhead could be found. Instead, his agents began scouring former Soviet republics for enriched uranium and weapons components that could be used to set off the fuel...
...think the reason I am disappointed by this change is that only students are affected by it-it requires no more effort on the part of the faculty (except adding a few more students to a few courses), but it does add a nontrivial burden to the requirements on certain students," Lewis wrote...
...years, representatives of governors, mayors, state legislators and other locally elected officials have been meeting with mail order firms in an effort to work out the tax collection problem. Mail order companies had argued that collecting the taxes was too cumbersome and was an unfair burden on them with the more than 45 state and 6,000 different local taxing authorities with varying taxing structures and items they taxed...
...mean the end of ground-based reconaissance. In the end, the decision to launch missile strikes on Iraq is another big win for Saddam Hussein. "The strikes are tantamount to an acknowledgment of defeat from the U.S.," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. UNSCOM's on-the-ground effort at arms control through inspection is now over. A more violent -- and less effective -- era of containing Saddam is now under...