Word: effort
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Until recently, the excuse for the lack of understanding between Arabs and Americans has been that Arabs are not doing enough to present their culture. This is no longer true. Arabs and Arab-Americans have made a genuine effort to provide the American public with a more representative image of the Arab World...
...Neighborhood requires its audience to be attentive and ready for a hour-and-a-half of sheer concentration. It's an interactive experience that can be both fulfilling and exasperating, but it's really a matter of taste whether you think it's worth the effort...
...America after the World Wars led to the decrease of English poetry in textbooks--leaving an educational "poetry gap" which has not yet been adequately filled up with the work of the great American poets. "[That] seems to me deplorable," she says. "I think there should be a sustained effort to present Americans with their own cultural heritage...
Gomes quoted New England's First Fruits, a book written by an anonymous author during the mid-1600s to attract European investors to the colonial effort. "The Indians were to be the first fruits of a great general harvest," he said. "They were to be the vanguard of the reformation of the world...
Organizers said that the debate and its topic--"What is good for the company is good for the country"--was an effort to broaden the perspectives of students at Harvard's graduate schools...