Word: efforts
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...have encountered problems with language--at times we have had difficulty saying exactly what we wanted to say or even speaking at all. Moments like these make us painfully aware of the limitations of language, of our language. We realize that speech is a labor of love, an effort to obliterate the spaces and experiences that block our understanding of one another, render them irrelevant in some human communion. Paradoxically, these failings of language and speech connect us--our blighted attempts become a universal tie in the human experience...
...Walk for Hunger began as part of a national effort in 1969. The initial event raised $26,000 in Boston. In 1975, Project Bread began organizing the local walk to help fund emergency homeless shelters and relief efforts...
Walk for Hunger spokesperson Denise Goros said walkers recorded a record $3.5 million in pledges, which topped last year's effort by 35 percent. While Goros couldn't predict how much of the pledged money the organization would actually receive, she said they usually get 80 to 90 percent from sponsors...
Bozzotto said he expected the 75 members of the union's negotiating committee to make a concerted effort to attend all of the weekly meetings to discuss their negotiating strategy...
Egan, the vice president of Hallmark Cards,said he had often spoken to colleagues about whathe calls HRAAA's effort "to take over thegovernance of the University." He said Glimp didnot act inappropriately...