Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Things quickly returned to normal, as Harvard regained the upper hand almost immediately. The outcome, however, remained in doubt until midway through the second half, when Miller's superb effort gave Harvard a much deserved lead...
Evolution is revolution in today's China, as the great transformation of the communist system proceeds in the painful effort to create a system that works. Last week Jiang Zemin was the latest leader to order a retreat from one of the ideology's sacred tenets: state ownership of industry. Although he cloaked his decision in the semantic cant of "socialism with Chinese characteristics," the change he has ordered is nothing less than the last major step toward Chinese-style capitalism. Beijing will sell off the bulk of the nation's virtually broke state enterprises. Call it what they...
...Peace and Freedom ran newspaper ads calling Cassini a "nuclear experiment in space" and claiming that NASA has failed to consider safer power sources like solar cells. The group is planning rallies at the U.N., at the White House and, on Oct. 4, at Cape Canaveral in an effort to get Cassini canceled...
...plays honky-tonk piano in small nightclubs in Maine. But it is with Meader and more recent news events in mind that we offer similar sympathy to the producers of Diana & Me, a romantic film comedy about a woman who is obsessed with the Princess of Wales. In her effort to meet Diana, the heroine hooks up with and eventually falls for a paparazzo who is stalking Diana. This lighthearted Australian production finished shooting only recently, not long before the paparazzi-related automobile accident that has riveted the world. The producers of Diana & Me have announced that they still plan...
...provided training and assistance to 14 countries to help develop indigenous, self-sustaining humanitarian demining programs. U.S. government agencies have spent more than $137 million for training, operations, logistical support and in-kind contributions. The Department of Defense plays a large part in the training component of this effort. We have deployed explosive-ordnance-disposal personnel and engineers to Bosnia and 11 countries in Africa, Latin America and Indochina. H. ALLEN HOLMES, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Washington...