Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front of a Model A. The man dumped the collected hoppers in a pile, sprayed oil on them and triumphantly set them ablaze. Father, knowing the futility of the effort, still murmured his appreciation of such energy and ingenuity, wrote the facts down in his little notebook. Story printed with picture...
...think the time has come for the United States to make a new effort to contact the Iranians and the Hizballah...
Paul Donovan, Kennedy's press secretary, saidthat the amendment was part of an effort to takethe "demand approach" to fighting the drugproblem...
...arrest of Ow Young was puzzling because the officers who mounted Tuesday's coup effort had named him as an officer to be forcibly retired...
What they don't want is a "concerted national effort" that consists of a week of headlines, presidential press conferences, and then abandonment in favor of the next crisis du jour...