Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While knee injuries to Stanford's All-American junior forward Kristin Folkl and All-American senior forward Venessa Nygaard make the Crimson's task at least a shade easier, it will take a season's worth of effort all wrapped into one game in order for Harvard to pull off one of the biggest upsets in college basketball history...
...past several years, the UFW has been trying to unionize the 20,000 strawberry workers in California. Every effort to do so has been met with vicious resistance by the strawberry growers. Initially, attempts were made to organize single farms. Each time a farm was successfully unionized, however, the growers used tactics such as plowing under fields to prevent the union from becoming established...
These are not the thoughts of a typical bleeding-heart liberal. Much of the effort will be wasted, but some of the lives of inmates will be improved by the education they receive. Even if it helps only a few, the effort should be made...
...attention recently, it's a given that a certain number of underage drinkers are going to get nabbed in any year. And so it seems unreasonable--at least without further evidence--to explain the kinds of anecdotes I've been hearing in terms of a concerted law enforcement effort...
...whom I allegedly told that "Dick Nixon is a loser." It will be especially interesting, since I have never said it or thought it. I am sorry that at a time when Republican leaders are working hard for party unity, TIME would stoop to quoting nameless sources in an effort to destroy that unity. RONALD REAGAN Governor Sacramento, Calif...