Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joan Prum moved to Cambridge only recently, but she has already attempted to influence policy through grassroots action.The retired mother of two Harvard graduates helped in the effort to save a house on Linnaean Street from developers...
...differences that I see in the new wave of people is that they've never faced oppression," she says. "They're more inclined to deal with problems by getting a lawyer, whereas with working class and minority populations, they're more likely to make an effort with collective action because they've faced oppression before...
Tell that to Dr. Philip Needham, father of the cox-2 inhibitor, who calls the white paper Palmer presented to the FDA panel "a predictable effort to protect their drug." If you want evidence that Celebrex works, he says, just ask the 13,000 arthritis patients who took part in its trial. "We're getting letters saying, 'Please don't take us off,'" Needham says. And the side effects? Pretty close to placebo levels...
...then infested successively by frogs, gnats, flies, a pestilence on livestock, boils on people and beasts, hail, locusts and "a darkness that can be touched." Scientific skeptics have assigned them myriad natural explanations, including a comet and a volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. The most ingenious effort is an ecological domino theory proposed in the 1950s by a scholar named Greta Hort: the Nile's many tributaries flood, infesting the great river with blood-red soil from the high plateaus and reddish micro-organisms usually confined to up-country lakes. These micro-organisms poison the fish, whose...
...they are calling in the chits to promote "a living wage" for low-income service workers. A new Los Angeles ordinance requires firms doing business with the city to pay $7.39 an hour with benefits or $8.64 without--higher than the state minimum of $5.75. Now, in an effort that may be duplicated in other cities, pro-labor officials are refusing subsidies to developers who want to build big projects, including the Staples sports arena and a Hollywood theater-and-hotel complex, unless they agree to pay the higher wage to their waiters, janitors, hot-dog vendors and others. Last...