Word: efforts
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...numbers underscore the importance of vaccination in the effort to curb the spread of the disease, says Schuchat. They also support health officials' decision to target high-risk populations for the first immunizations. Of all hospitalized Americans, more than half were between ages 18 and 64, while only 9% were 65 or older. That distribution is the opposite of the way seasonal flu usually affects a community; in that case, 90% of hospitalizations are usually among the elderly...
...Efforts to enact sweeping health care reform date back to the presidency of Harry Truman, and attempts have been made under presidents ranging from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton, whose disastrous failure to enact reform in 1993 resulted in the Republicans regaining control of the House of Representatives for the first time in four decades. The House’s passage of health insurance reform thus marks the farthest that the reform effort has ever come, for which we congratulate Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her pragmatism and extraordinary political acumen...
...It’s not going to be a cakewalk,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “He’s ready for a good hard effort to get to the next level...
...painful irony of the black jails is that they sprang up after an earlier effort by Beijing to reform the national detention system. In 2003 a migrant worker in Guangzhou named Sun Zhigang was beaten to death while in police custody. Sun, who had been stopped for not carrying his temporary-residence certificate, was detained under a system known as "custody and repatriation." That system, a series of detention centers as well as the legal framework to hold people on administrative charges, was used to round up vagrants, beggars and petitioners...
...just very sad to see Britain, so important in Europe, just cutting itself out from the rest and disappearing from the radar," Lellouche told the Guardian, describing the effort as "pathetic" and likening the Tories' Europe hostility to autism. "They have one line, and they just repeat one line. It is a very bizarre sense of autism...