Word: effortful
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...York's Carolyn McCarthy, whom gun violence brought into politics when her husband was killed and her son grievously wounded by a crazed shooter on a Long Island Rail Road train in 1993. McCarthy made an emotional, sensible and ultimately ineffectual speech in the House in an effort to get a stronger measure passed...
Following upon Columbine, the most dramatic grass-roots effort has been the Bell Campaign. Modeled on Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the campaign plans to designate one day a year to toll bells all over the country for every victim of guns during the previous year. The aim of the Bell Campaign is to get guns off the streets and out of the hands of just about everyone except law officers and hunters. Andrew McGuire, executive director, whose cousin was killed by gunfire many years ago, wants gun owners to register and reregister every year. "I used to say that...
...Edgar M. Bronfman Sr., president of the World Jewish Congress. He has "worked to insure basic rights for Jews around the world and to fight anti-Semitism and has spearheaded the effort to retrieve the assets of Holocaust victims and their families," according to the White House tribute...
...this week, the painstaking effort he devoted to the project has paid off, as his book Cardozo, was named the best law book of 1999 by Scribes, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects...
...this week, the painstaking effort he devoted to the project paid off, as his book Cardozo, was named the best law book of 1999 by Scribes, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects...