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Word: effort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other business, George Despotes, a noted Cambridge eccentric and City Council meeting regular, asked councillors to install surveillance cameras throughout Cambridge in an effort to make the city safer...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Owner Says Tasty Will Make Return | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

...pack. And I leave the track having blown a good 15 bucks, feeling somewhat empty and slightly used. But late that very night, an interesting bit of news about Bertucci's (BERT), the KSF's other holding, comes to my attention: The company's founder is making an effort to buy a controlling interest in the restaurant chain and he's going to pay $8 a share--28 percent more than we paid...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Catching the Fever | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

...Dunster murder-suicide is only the most famous example of the University's neglect of its students. Many of us don't even know our adviser's name; most are only dimly aware of the proctor or tutor who lives downstairs. These "advisers" don't make much effort to change the status quo. Instead of a cute quote in a House facebook about how they are "always available to help," tutors must actively seek out their assigned students, meet with them for meals and personally invite them to study breaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Facing Harvard's Moral Responsibility | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

...seminar is part of PBHA's effort to provide information about careers in public service," said Lisa A. Tomlinson '99, president of PBHA...

Author: By India F. Landrigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PBHA Seminar Promotes Non-Profits | 2/24/1998 | See Source »

WASHINGTON: Get ready for Monica Lewinsky: The kiss-and-tell book. ?In the short run, when she is free of jeopardy, a literary effort might be her only option,? said her attorney William Ginsburg. Her only option, that is, to pay Ginsburg?s own hefty fees. After swearing off Sunday talk shows for good some weeks ago, Monica?s lawyer had mysteriously reappeared on Meet the Press and Face the Nation -- not to praise his client, but to bury her in a pile of legal bills. ?I am not being paid appropriately,? Ginsburg complained. ?Frankly, it?s difficult just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Check, Please | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

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