Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These questions are not just a strained effort to wrap Amistad'stiny intellectual core around the big problem of race. The President's Race Advisory Board, charged with orchestrating the national dialogue, has chosen to follow the same fuzzy, emotion-driven path. Thankfully, the idea of an apology for the misdeeds of people long-dead has been apparently squashed by those bright enough to recognize that such a move would accomplish nothing. The push for a slave memorial to be built on the National Mall remains strong. This seems a fairly harmless gesture that might be valuable if it actually...
...tough game [on Saturday] because we played fantastically and I think it took a little bit out of us," said Harvard Coach Katey Stone. "It was nice to see us come back and given almost a complete effort...
Senior guard Alison Seanor had another strong all-around effort finishing with six points, five rebounds, six assists and three steals. Harvard also continued to get excellent production from the other for HARVARD 74 DARTMOUTH...
...Levy?s resignation was prompted both by a budget that he believed failed Israel?s poor and by the stagnation in Israeli peace efforts ? the foreign minister had made no effort to conceal his frustration at Netanyahu?s disregard for Israel?s commitments in the peace process. Beyer says a bitter personal rivalry between the two men also prompted Levy to choose a critical moment to pull the plug on Netanyahu?s government...
...issue soon, but next year Hawaii's voters will have a chance to amend their constitution to ban same-sex marriages.) The New Jersey case, says Arne Owens, a spokesman for the Christian Coalition, "will serve as a wake-up call to people, because what we see is another effort by the homosexual lobby to advance their agenda, and here they're doing it on the backs of children. Traditional family arrangements are proven to work." Gay groups countered with an American Psychological Association study concluding that children of gay parents turn out no better or worse than children...