Word: efforts
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While applauding the overall effort, some concentrations feel they offer enough flexibility already and do not need to change...
...organization's conscience, alleged last month that five to eight of his colleagues had solicited bribes from potential host cities. Hodler then accused the previous winning cities of Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney of corruption--a charge officials in all three cities deny. (A leader of Anchorage's bid effort revealed to the Denver Post that in 1992 and 1994 his committee had refused I.O.C. operatives seeking $30,000 in return for votes...
...Flynt and Scaife are just Democratic and Republican versions of the same person: neither is troubled by scruples, but the Republican, like those Republicans we saw on the House Judiciary Committee, is tidier and seems to have a lot less fun. In order to finance the Arkansas Project, an effort to find something dirty on Bill Clinton, Scaife coughed up roughly the same sort of money that Flynt offered in the advertisement he took to flush out bimbos with Republican leanings. Scaife was using tax-free foundation money, which simply reflects the fact that Republicans tend to be better...
When the Human Genome Project was launched a little under a decade ago, boosters compared it with the Manhattan Project or the mission to put men on the moon: an effort so complex and so broad in scope that only the government had the financial and bureaucratic resources to pull it off--yet with such huge potential payoffs that virtually no resources should be spared...
...early gene-therapy trial for cystic fibrosis, inflammation caused by the viral carrier, an altered adenovirus, was so severe that the FDA ordered a halt to the effort, casting a pall over all the other trials--and the field in general. More problems plagued the researchers. In many cases the implanted genes failed to "turn on," or express themselves, and were unable to command the cells to produce the protein they were supposed to provide. Some operated for a while and then inexplicably shut down...