Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAMENTABLY, the travelling public was only too eager to join in Lorenzo's anti-labor effort. Last weekend, hundreds of people flocked to Eastern ticket counters for bargain $12 shuttle tickets to New York...
...solid team effort, a lot of guys came off the bench and did a great job," Valasek said...
...real focus of last week's rescue effort was not the would-be Defense Secretary but the President himself. Determined not to retreat in their first showdown with Congress -- and no less determined to squelch the spreading impression that Bush is off to a feckless start -- the President and his aides shifted their goal from saving Tower's nomination to tarring the Democrats with charges of character assassination and hypocrisy. Positioning themselves for the inevitable future battles over the budget and foreign policy, the Republicans hoped to rescue something from the wreckage of the Tower affair by lowering Congress...
...Inauguration. Yet the Administration seemed to know that Tower was a lost cause. By Thursday, when the Senate began its rancorous debate on the nomination, the President's advisers admitted they had failed to lock up a single Democratic vote. On Capitol Hill the Bush team's lobbying effort was being called "nonexistent...
...proponents of Proposition 1-2-3 fool you. It is not about homeownership, although phrasing it that way is a clever ploy. Proposition 1-2-3 is a well-funded effort aimed at the erosion of rent-control. Its sponsors are only concerned with the profits that condo sales and resales could generate...