Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...without a hitch. Though the Queen declined to shed her coat and hat and politely refused a chocolate biscuit, McCarron pronounced the monarch "easy to talk to" and "very nice." The painstakingly staged 15-minute visit, a first for the Queen, was part of the royal family's ongoing effort to exhibit a common touch. After her refreshment, Her Highness witnessed a nearby soccer "display." No word on whether she did the wave...
...last effort before heading out to the mound, I asked Mr. Shucks, the corn ear with a baseball head, for advice. It was then I learned Mr. Shucks is a woman. I found this oddly exciting...
...plane went missing, the search for the president?s son, his wife and her sister is now a hunt for their remains. Twelve hours, the statistical life of a person afloat in 68-degree water, are long since passed. The National Transportation Safety Board has joined the effort; they are excavators, investigators, not medics. The question of John Jr.?s death has changed from "whether...
...There has been a lot of confusion and sloppiness [in the past] and this is an effort to bring an end to that," he said. "We've been concerned about it for awhile and we've been trying to get some serious discussion with the University...
...data-collecting initiative is not the only action the University is taking to try to assess its labor practices. In addition to pursuing the data-collecting initiative, the University also appointed an interfaculty task on employment practice in April, partially in response to the Living Wage Campaigns effort to lobby for a minimum $10 an hour wage for all Harvard employees...