Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a disorganized and sometimes insensitive Jimmy Carter, overreacting to demands for leadership in an effort to save himself, seemingly unable to look ahead and see how his actions will affect the country. This is an uncertain Jimmy Carter trying to show how tough he is. It is true that many influential voices pleaded with Carter to be more decisive. Given his dismal political prospects and his genuine personal distress over the national attitude, an environment for extreme action was created, to which Carter responded...
...since 1976 because of increased traffic on the Burlington Northern. All across the country, railroads would need to upgrade their aging roadbeds, at a cost of as much as $10 billion, to handle the huge new volumes of coal and other freight. The entire construction effort, says Economist Alan Greenspan, would be rather like building a new Saudi Arabia in the middle...
...white brush drawings and etchings from life for eight years. In his paintings since 1973, that hunger is palpable, and it takes nothing for granted. "To paint from life at this point of time," he argues, "demands both the transgression and the inclusion of doubt." Transgression, because any effort to depict something is a shot at certainty; inclusion, because the central paradox of realism is that representation can never be completed. There is always a level of detail below which paint cannot go. What makes the realist painting is not complete illusion, but intensity; and there is no in tensity...
...unusually detailed charges suggest that the company spent almost as much effort buying off officials as it did pursuing its business. The SEC's allegations read like a Baedeker of bribery...
Year of the Garden." Three historic floral parks have been restored and opened to the public. And London's Victoria and Albert Museum is offering an exhibition that illustrates the nation's continuing effort to tame nature through...