Word: effort
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...Borlaug--who died Sept. 12 at the age of 95--joined the Rockefeller Foundation's effort to conquer hunger in Mexico. At the time, agricultural researchers were enhancing crop yields by bombing plants with nitrogen fertilizer. But they eventually discovered that the process made seed heads grow so big they would collapse in the field. Nature seemed to have hit a wall...
Obama has vowed instead to fund projects examining alternatives, an effort echoed in the Senate Finance Committee health-reform bill released Sept. 16. One idea: apologize. Studies show that when doctors tell patients they erred and are sorry, litigation is much less likely. (Such admissions of guilt are typically inadmissible in court.) Since launching a program in which doctors admit errors and offer payments out of court, the University of Michigan Health System has cut claims in half...
...jittery creditors to keep lending it money--filed for bankruptcy protection. It was the largest bankruptcy ever in the U.S., but the really big news was what happened afterward. First came a financial panic that threatened to shatter the global capitalist order, followed by an unprecedented--and unprecedentedly expensive--effort by governments on both sides of the Atlantic to patch things...
Tassopoulos made a big kick save on the fast break that followed, but Penn kept charging into the Crimson’s zone, with Sarah Hasson tipping in her second goal off a pass from Katie Rose. Hasson earned Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors for her effort...
Using the past games as building blocks, Sheeleigh claimed the team had finally learned to play together, play efficiently, and play with strong effort...