Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, playing family-history detective takes time, patience and effort. Helen Shaw, 48, of Chicago started with only the family Bible and a grandfather's scrapbook. They led her to a quiet cemetery in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. "It turns out," she says, "that I'm related to about three-fourths of the people buried there." Now a professional genealogist, Shaw photocopied local census records and created a 500-page manuscript documenting the entwined relationships of the cemetery's roughly 2,500 people. Phyllis Heiss, 76, of Boca Raton, Fla., tracked her family back 15 generations across five centuries and estimates...
...regulated airline that could pass the entire expense on to its passengers. But such customization no longer flies in an era of deregulated fare wars. Says Robert Hammer, vice president in charge of bringing Boeing production techniques into the 21st century: "This is the largest, most complex business-redesign effort in the world. And we should not be proud of that. It's like saying you've got the biggest spring-housecleaning job in town...
...Lyons debut novel, Dog Days, one cannot help but be dazed and confused. Although the 224-page book certainly reads very quickly and has its humorous moments, the basic premise upon which it is founded makes little to no sense. The novel could have been a much better first effort had it not relied so heavily upon ethnic, particularly Irish and Italian, stereotypes, homophobic jokes, scatological humor and ridiculous portrayals of Mafia types in Boston's North End. Had Lyons focused more on developing real characters and a stimulating plot, Dog Days might actually be a worthwhile read...
...possesses a breezy and enjoyable style, although it is not particularly complex or challenging. Again, maybe the one-sidedness of the characters stems more from the lack of any sort of complication in the plot or of the novel as a whole. Lyons has not made much of an effort to broaden or expand his characters--each is as constant and predictable as the weather in a coolly air-conditioned room...
...hallmark of Khatami's campaign for change is his very tentative effort to create a less hostile relationship with the American "Great Satan." Last January he called for cultural exchanges aimed at breaking down the "wall of mistrust" between Tehran and Washington. When Secretary of State Madeleine Albright finally delivered a full-blown response to Khatami two weeks ago, calling on Iran to explore further confidence-building steps and draw a road map to "normal relations," it was the most conciliatory tone on Iran to come out of Washington since Khomeini's revolutionaries held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days...