Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should put our effort into making the whole work rather than establishing separate parts," said Epps in a telephone interview. "I think it would promote racial separation...
...said, but none of that sounds familiar to me," Jones told the paper. Ralph Langer, executive vice president and editor of The News, said the documents were real and were obtained legally. His decision to publish them late Friday on the newspaper's website (dallasnews.com) may have been an effort to prevent the defense from suppressing the documents. If the documents are real, the statements made by McVeigh could validate critical points in the prosecution's case and help prove him and Nichols guilty. In one revelation, McVeigh contradicted a witness claim that she knew the identity of the person...
Fagles made special effort in his translation to avoid the old-fashioned type of stilted, impenetrable rendering that forces the reader into saccadic conniptions in the search for a sentence's subject. With a smile he recognizes such age-old traps of translation in his book's postscript: "Not a line-by-line translation, my version of The Odyssey is, I hope, neither so literal in rendering Homer's language...
...long as it's an effort of just eight to ten people [trying to make the environment friendlier], which is what it usually is, it's very difficult," Foster says...
These issues, which impact disproportionately people of color, need persistent voices and an extensive effort to receive the kind of political attention they require. As students, we have a unique opportunity to contribute to this effort...