Word: effort
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the Crimson's depth and talent, it will still take a strong effort to win the Eastern regional championships in March. Princeton and Penn State, the teams that beat out Harvard in the championships last winter, return strong squads, as does Army...
...Klerk's "new thinking" is simply an effort to buy time. Until he can conceive a realistic solution for his troubled regime, de Klerk's "plan" is simply to alienate extremists on both sides to make himself look like a moderate. In a nation that desperately needs true political reforms, this gradualist game is not enough...
Adamec also held his first talks with leading dissident Vaclav Havel and independents in an effort to find a way to end the political crisis and propel Czechoslovakia toward democracy...
What East Germans expect first of all from their new leaders is an effort to build "real Socialism" and sweep away the remnants of a corrupt and repressive regime. They want closer relations with their West German brethren, a growing together with the Federal Republic -- but not necessarily reunification; they insist on being accepted as they are. And finally, they demand economic reward, even though they know they are not likely to catch up with the West any time soon...
...Central America for social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...