Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biologist, I was quick to recognize that although effortlessness is unusual in "self-help" techniques, it is very common in nature. In fact, our physical growth from fertilized egg to 60- or 70-kilo, highly differentiated, adult requires little if any conscious effort on our part. This whole immensely complicated process is automatic. Thus, a simple, effortless technique said to be merely a way to optimize nature's own fundamental laws of progress did not seem to contradict anything in the biological world, so I decided to give...
...Government has candidly acknowledged the crisis. Not long after his election, President Carter met with HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and a group of college presidents to discuss problems of higher education. In the fall, HEW launched Operation Common Sense, a comprehensive effort to review, simplify and recodify regulations. Last week, in a further effort to bring a number of widely scattered programs under one roof, Carter proposed the establishment of a new Department of Education...
...commission made more than 800 recommendations for reducing paperwork in its two years of existence. Many of these addressed the problem of more than one Federal agency requesting the same information from a respondent and thereby creating unnecessary duplication of effort...
Jamie Egasti, inspired by that fresh New Haven air, battled furiously to come up with most of the face-offs for the Crimson, and Nelson, in perhaps his best effort of the year, turned in some superb ball handling...
...team also clinched the top two spots in the javelin throw as the duo of Dave Kinney, placing first with his 250-ft., 10-in, effort, and Mike Stewart, placing 2nd despite his injured arm, added to Harvard's tally...