Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The Harvard football team's defense put forth its most impressive effort of the season Saturday, holding the Brown offensive attack--believed to be almost unstoppable--to its lowest offensive production of the season...
Murphy has said repeatedly that the talent level in the Ivy League is close. This year proves him right, since four teams were tied for the league lead at 3-1 entering this past weekend. Little things in individual Ivy games determine the champion, and despite a truly great effort, it looks like this isn't Harvard's year...
...House committees support CHL's decision, universal keycard access to all the upper-class houses--an enterprise that has required over four years of effort--may become a reality as early as December...
...Narrators change voice almost arbitrarily as Budnitz jumps from Sashie to Ilana. Aside from the content of each narration, Budnitz makes little effort to create a different stylistic or narrative voice for each one. She intrepidly attempts to address the conflict of old values and new, western values through the interplay between Ilana and Sashie. However, an analysis of dishtowels, tea leaves and hospitalization from two perspectives destroys the potential depth of this exchange. Budnitz tries to be too profound in her simplification, taking on too large a human theme within too small of a context...
...hoped-for outcome and its importance to the person's life goals has to be considered when weighing the decision about how much of one's resources to expend on the effort," Orr wrote...