Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, many city residents have criticized the role of the city manager, saying that he is no longer accountable to the people. During several controversial debates this year, the charge was made that Healy had not made an effort to inform adequately the council or the city of his actions...
...time when the Kabul regime is increasingly assertive on the military and political fronts -- and the guerrillas' drive has faltered. Whatever the fallout, the prospect for future unity is bleak. U.S. analysts fear that once Najibullah is ousted, mujahedin factions will turn on one another in the effort to achieve power...
...mood remained relaxed. Some travelers noticed the wide turn to the southwest and heard the thrust in the two wing engines change, alternately increasing and decreasing. Haynes was apparently relying on a technique that pilots call "porpoising," adjusting the thrust of his two remaining engines in a desperate effort to control the plane. Passenger Kathleen Batson joked that the engine problem would get them priority-landing rights in Chicago. "We won't be circling O'Hare," she quipped...
...effort to be educated consumers, today's patients read books with titles like What Your Doctor Didn't Learn in Medical School and Take This Book to the Hospital with You. The message is that a smart patient is an informed patient, who challenges a doctor's authority rather than submits uncritically to the physician's will and whims. Yet that approach rubs raw against a basic instinct. Patients want to trust their doctors, to view them as benign and authoritative. Even those who privately question a doctor's decisions may be loath to express dissent. Doctors admit that...
...Such effort is frequently the norm for our photographers, as major picture essays appear in the magazine almost every week. Some assignments are long planned, then take on special urgency after they get under way. When TIME's White House photographer Diana Walker began shooting for her May 22 essay on a day in the life of the President, she had no idea that George Bush would be facing a foreign policy crisis over Panama. Busy as he was, the President still went out of his way to ask, "How can I help make your job easier today?" Chimed...