Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Colleagues find Powell's strength of feeling on civil rights issues apparent but not obtrusive. At the Pentagon, he kept watch over promising black officers, and he makes a special effort to encourage young black soldiers. He informally advised Jesse Jackson during the past presidential campaign, while maintaining his loyalty to the Reagan national security team...
...sharing information in the 1950s. Now critics say the system is tantamount to price fixing. College officials disagree, but they are complying with the inquiry. "I've done almost nothing but work on this request since July 31," says Amherst College treasurer James Scott. It will be worth the effort, he says, if critics "bitching and moaning about college costs" come to see that no one is getting rich teaching the country's children...
Casale and Lerman think it is highly significant that Baby Boomers are becoming increasingly concerned with protecting the environment. But green politics, while important, is more or less concerned with quality of life issues. It entails no sacrifice and is not really an effort to assist those who have been screwed over by life...
...then there are those conservation-minded writers who try to squeeze fiction, criticism and metacriticism into a single volume. Nice Work, the newest novel by the British writer and English professor David Lodge, is the result of just such an effort...
Dallas summers are usually notable for their scorching heat and blinding sun. This season the city is being treated to a spectacle that seems a throwback to an earlier age: small bands of angry civil rights demonstrators marching, rallying and disrupting public gatherings in an effort to gain a greater voice at city hall...