Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...embarrassing moment of Gore's political career, bringing forward three shaven-headed Buddhist nuns, wrapped in nutmeg-colored robes and blanket immunity, to recount how they were badgered into laundering campaign money when the Vice President visited their temple. More ominous are new revelations about the dialing-for-dollars effort that Gore mounted from his White House office in 1995 and 1996, which may turn out to be the misstep that lands the entire mess in the hands of an independent counsel. This would be the fifth to find work investigating various transgressions alleged against top Clinton Administration officials...
...Republican National Committee will launch a "major effort to broaden the base of the Republican Party" with a national minority outreach program, the strangely-titled New Majority Council...
Rudenstine has been a leader on this issue since he authored his most recent President's Report on diversity in higher education. Last year he also coordinated an effort by 62 schools to publish a fullpage ad in The New York Times attesting to diversity's importance in higher education...
...Colby has made a miraculous recovery, due to a fanatical work effort," Harvard Coach Tim Murphy said. "He's not 100 percent, but after his catastrophic knee injury and reconstruction, I don't know if anyone can be 100 percent. He's done as much...
...against Alabama, the top singles positions had difficulty finding a "W", while the doubles effort rebounded well, but in the end could not muster enough fuel to bounce the eventual East Regional Champions...