Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were a bit surprised to win by such a bigmargin, but we were confident going in, and wefelt that we would win," Wang said. "This has beenthe best team effort that I've seen here. We arereally psyched about how we played, and we hope tobuild on that...
CONFLICT 15-year effort by Kurdish separatists to establish autonomy in southeastern Turkey...
...since the air war began, the states to which they fled were convulsed. Inside Macedonia and Montenegro, officials struggled to hold together governments stunned by the economic and social costs of the influx. Meanwhile, relief organizations scrambled to build tent cities, and NATO diverted transport planes from the war effort to rush in food, which the refugees were consuming at the rate of about 250 tons a day. About 120,000 people were to be convoyed or flown out of the Balkans for temporary resettlement around the world; the U.S. first agreed to house 20,000 refugees at the American...
...Wachowskis, whose first directorial effort was the seductive femme-noir drama Bound, have deeper fish to fry. "We're interested in mythology, theology and, to a certain extent, higher-level mathematics," says Larry. "All are ways human beings try to answer bigger questions, as well as The Big Question. If you're going to do epic stories, you should concern yourself with those issues. People might not understand all the allusions in the movie, but they understand the important ideas. We wanted to make people think, engage their minds...
...fact that a business owner doesn't have to be the size of Amazon.com to take advantage of the Internet. By the thousands, small business owners are following in Hanson's briny footsteps. Only a year or so ago, getting up on the Web was a major effort and expense. Businesses had to turn to Internet service providers, web-page designers and Web consultants to set up a website that could easily cost tens of thousands of dollars. But in the past year, all that has changed. Thanks to increased competition among providers and improved technology everywhere, a growing number...