Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made himself into a "Renaissance boy"--a wrestler and musician, prizewinning scientist and newspaper editor--all to avoid the stereotypes commonly affixed to young Asian-American males. As Liu writes in his new book, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker (Random House; 206 pages; $23), his effort to distinguish himself didn't always work: "In the eyes of some, I suppose, I was simply another Asian 'overachiever...
...Telecommunications Act of 1996 [NATION, May 25], Congress wisely recognized that we must bring telecommunications technology via the Internet to our nation's schools and libraries. This effort is critical to ensuring that low-income Americans and those in rural areas gain access to the tools they need to compete in our information-age economy. Bringing technology to all Americans is the key to our future as a global competitor. We simply cannot stand by and allow our schoolchildren to be bypassed by the information highway. Discounts for schools and libraries mean education today and jobs tomorrow...
...said the authority routinely tortures suspects. In an effort to control militant groups like Hamas, the Authority has set up courts which mete out arbitrary arrests and abuse in the name of controlling terrorism, Sourani said...
...rumored to have vied for Ella's job; Ian McAllister, head of the Economics Department and a staunch opponent of Ella's policies, and Leo Barrett, Harvard's newest president with a past to which only Ella was privy. Diverse though these characters may seem, the author makes little effort to develop their behaviors or idiosyncrasies in either a compelling or interesting way. Each suspect becomes interchangeable with the next, any of whom could have committed the crime. The reader is left bored and impatient in the process...
...assets that "could have belonged to European Jews or other non-Swiss residents." But the big bankers have been severely embarrassed by recent revelations that the Nazis stashed concentration camp gold in secret Swiss accounts, and that trade with this nominally neutral nation helped prop up Germany's war effort. Will $600 million make the bad publicity go away? Not if the victims of that war effort have anything to do with...