Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with sticks. As a teenager, Julian spends a summer in Brittany, where French is taught by Mme. de Normandin and sex by her daughter Barbara. Later, while trying to avoid work in the army, he learns another of life's essential lessons: "Not-really-trying is just as much effort as trying-really-hard. The only difference between the two modes of activity is that not-really-trying receives no reward...
...savings and loan thing, which I know something about. The absence of a strong spirit of professionalism and independence in the Home Loan Bank System and in the FSLIC ((which insures S and L depositors)) certainly had something to do with the weaknesses of the supervision and the regulatory effort. You can argue that's all great -- that we gave the S and Ls all this opportunity to go out and do it in the interest of entrepreneurship and a bright new financial world. But I think we've lost a little sense of balance. Hey, look at the Pentagon...
Galvanized by the threat to Roe, pro-choice groups have embarked on an all- out lobbying effort. The National Organization for Women is planning a huge march in Washington on April 9. The National Abortion Rights Action League is organizing a drive to send a million postcards to the high court. Another tactic is to elicit a large outpouring of friend-of-court briefs from groups like bar associations, civil rights organizations, Senators and Congressmen, and population-control organizations...
...officials of Imhausen-Chemie, which has its headquarters in the Black Forest town of Lahr. The calls reportedly took place after a toxic spill resulted from a bungled attempt by the Libyans to manufacture a test quantity of chemical-weapons material at the still uncompleted plant. In a frantic effort to get advice on cleaning up and repairing the plant, Libyan officials spoke at length with Imhausen-Chemie personnel. Those conversations left no doubt that employees of the West German firm were just as aware as the Libyans that the plant was being used to produce toxic...
This "rescue effort" reflects the perverted values of many involved in the animal rights movement today. Yes, excessive animal cruelty should be stopped. Yes, we should search for adequate substitutes to animal experimentation. And yes, potential fur coat buyers should be dissuaded from their purchase...