Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trouble for "Red Harry," as the right-wing press dubs him, is that he is not really in charge. His phone is being tapped. The CIA has infiltrated his Cabinet. His own intelligence chief is ferreting out scandals, real and invented, in an effort to bring down his government. In A Very British Coup, an engrossing new Masterpiece Theatre presentation, Perkins starts out trying to make a revolution. He ends up making a stand for the quaint notion that governments should be run by the people elected to office...
...such highway horror stories are becoming more common. Currently 12% of the population is 65 or older, a figure expected to reach 17% in the next 40 years. While dangerous drivers come in all ages -- the most menacing, in fact, are still the youngest -- there is a growing nationwide effort to ensure that older people with licenses either drive safely or get off the road...
...were all very pleased with the effort," Assistant Coach Jon Anz said. "The guys took it extremely seriously. It's one of those matches that you hope the team goes out there and plays as well as they...
...figured we'd have to win both relays [the one-mile and the two-mile] to win the meet. I almost exactly predicted the score," Haggerty said. "I'm pleased with the effort. I didn't want people to worry about times and distances, I just wanted them to be competitive. Losing like that sometimes clouds the fact that they did well...
Only after the murders provoked a national outcry did the FBI enter Mississippi in force and begin a massive effort to undermine the Klan. Until then Director J. Edgar Hoover's insistence that the bureau was a strictly investigative agency forced FBI agents to invest far more energy in busting stolen car rings and foiling bank robberies than in probing even the most flagrant depredations against blacks. In 1961 the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights suggested that since the bureau was often so closely linked to Southern law-enforcement officials, another group might take over the handling of civil rights...