Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first half, despite the numbers, you could tell that Tinsley was the best player on the floor; she just didn't want to put out the effort. If she comes to play, Northeastern (5-5) wins. If she doesn't, the Huskies...
...thought our effort was very good and we competed hard," Mazzoleni said. "We did generate more offense than we have. We got some people to create some congestion around the net, which we haven't been doing. But we didn't finish...
Prior to yesterday's game, the Crimson had been denied most of its power-play opportunities, but not due to lack of effort. Dominic Moore crashed the net at 12:40 and backhanded the puck just...
Russia has denied reports of the botched tank raid, accusing Western news agencies of fabricating a deliberate propaganda effort. "Now everyone's waiting for the video, because the Chechens usually record these things," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "After Moscow's denials, a video showing the ambush did occur could prove embarrassing to Russia's generals." It would prove even more embarrassing to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who has built his political reputation almost exclusively on the Chechnya campaign. "The plan may have been for Putin to fly down and raise the Russian flag over Grozny...
...lower-than-normal amount of the chemical dopamine, which is associated with concentration and motivation. ADHD children, says the report, have an average of 70 percent more dopamine transporters in their brains than other children - evidence, researchers think, that these brains developed the extra transporters in a vain effort to compensate for a lack of dopamine. Couple that finding with a report earlier this week from National Institute of Mental Health that said the disorder is most effectively treated with medications, such as Ritalin, and you have an emerging consensus that ADHD is a real physical disorder...