Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...face it. It's their oil, and the OPEC nations are going to do anything they want with it. In my opinion, most citizens waste too much time and effort complaining about the oil companies and the Department of Energy, and devote too little to conservation efforts...
...population is enraged over the Guard's indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas and by its summary execution of "suspects." The bodies of scores of young people, blindfolded, with their hands tied, litter the shore of Lake Managua. Last week, in an effort to limit the bloodshed of a civil war that has resulted in at least 15,000 deaths so far this year, the U.S. appealed for an end to arms shipments to both sides in the conflict. It remained to be seen whether that call for calm would be honored. Somoza's battered air force was reinforced...
...bargaining agent for the bank's employees. The union has persuaded labor organizations and civic groups to withdraw deposits of more than $125 million from Seafirst. It has also begun to ask other unions to take their pension funds from Seafirst's correspondent banks in an effort to get them to break their ties. Last week the AFL-CIO called for a national boycott of Seafirst by union pension-fund managers...
This is not the first time that Caesar and cinema have met. Of the roughly 400 silent films adapted from Shakespeare's plays between 1899 and 1929, there are ten versions of Caesar, the first being a French effort of 1907. In the half century since 1929, about 50 sound films have been made, including three of Caesar, all American. The straightforward 1953 version, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz--with James Mason's Brutus, John Gielgud's Cassius. Marlon Brando's Antony, and the late Louis Calhern's Caesar--remains the only excellent Shakespearean film ever done in our country...
...effort to catch up, Mayor Kevin White has hired Benjamin Thompson, the architect who renovated Quincy Market, to devise a plan for the theater district. So far, at least four major buildings -offices and part of the Tufts-New England Medical Center-are scheduled to rise near the combat zone. Boston once pulled off a revolution; it may yet find the means to manage a renaissance...