Word: effortful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also under consideration was the prohibition of spring football in an effort to reduce the amount of time serious athletes must spend on the playing fields...
...Crimson played the Bruins even for 116 tantalizing minutes. But with four minutes to play in the second overtime period, a Suzanne Bailey header wasted Harvard's valiant effort, propelling Brown to a 2-1 victory and a clear path to the Ivy title...
...accepting the incomplete reports on the facts unearthed by and the motives of the Justice Department probe, the staff is falling under the spell created by the political grandstanding of the Bush Administration. This probe is yet another effort to attack relatively unimportant issues while avoiding the innumerable problems facing the country...
Long-standing neglect at the Energy Department led to the dangerous deterioration of Government-run nuclear-weapons plants, and the department is currently dragging its heels on an estimated $150 billion effort to get the program back into shape. At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, new Secretary Jack Kemp is busy mopping up after eight years of Reagan-era mismanagement and scandal. The losses are running beyond $4 billion...
...effort to get even closer to the music he loves, Woody has been quietly rehearsing with a group of more New Orleans-oriented musicians for the past year or so. He remains vague about his ultimate plans for the group, but banjoist Davis says there is talk of booking it in a jazz club one night a week, and there have been feelers from several European jazz festivals. The tapes are always rolling during the rehearsals, moreover, so there is a chance that the sessions could ultimately produce something Woody has long resisted: a record featuring him on clarinet...