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They have been used as a powerful tool in the effort to control women's sexuality in about every culture, religion and historical decade.

CA: So you make an effort to ensure the documents are legitimate, but you actually almost never know who the identity of the source is? JA: That's right, yeah.

Have you had information from inside BP? JA: Yeah, we have a lot, but I mean, at the moment, we are undergoing a sort of serious fundraising and engineering effort.

Consider, the single most successful international environmental effort of the 20th century, the Montreal Protocol, in which the nations of Earth banded together to protect the planet from the harmful effects of ozone-destroying chemicals used at that time in air conditioners, refrigerators and other cooling devices.

And it wasn't a miracle; it was the combined effort of a team of thousands of people who worked together to make was seemed impossible a reality.

So, this possibility of a new type of global recognition, I think, is driving huge amounts of effort.

We've fished with many nations around the world in an effort to basically put electronic computers inside giant tunas.

And then with a lot of effort, after tagging, putting in the computer, making sure the stalk is sticking out so it senses the environment, we send this fish back into the sea.

It takes a human effort, a team effort, to bring the fish in.

And this virtual object takes 200 real people about 56 days of real time to build, plus countless thousands of hours of effort before that.

But we're here for the good news, and the good news is that I think we can explore why this very real human effort, this very intense generation of value, is occurring.

And by this, I mean looking at what millions upon millions of people have done and carefully calibrating the rate, the nature, the type, the intensity of rewards in games to keep them engaged over staggering amounts of time and effort.

Now, if you take a game like Warcraft, you can think about it, if you like, as a great box-opening effort.

Third, you reward effort.

We can reward effort consistently as everything fields together.

For instance, they found that incentivizing students for inputs, like effort, worked a lot better than incentivizing for outputs, like test scores.

That way we're incentivizing effort rather than performance over a short enough period and with a substantial enough payout for the students to care.

So our effort should be to filter out as much unfairness as we can from everywhere, starting from our communities, starting from our companies.

I tell these stories as a concerted effort to correct the historical record, because, no matter where any of us is from, each of us has been touched by the complicated histories that brought our families to a foreign land.

Boetticher seems to have waived rehearsal time and settled for the first take as leads Joe Cotton and Rhonda Fleming put little effort into their roles, delivering lines flatly and without energy.

She was lovely in the romantic scenes; too bad Bill Paxton was flying on autopilot for the whole effort.

However, in an effort to keep my writings G Rated, I'll simply say this film is another four letter word starting with an L. LAME!!!

I have always used Independence Day as the hallmark of a truly awful film (US President commandeers jet plane and beats off aliens, ha ha), and this effort runs it close.

Here my only good point goes to the actor Helder Mendes...one of the few non stars': He makes the effort to establish some credibility, and in such a messy movie without any direction (of any kind) I give him the credit for trying hard.

no effort was made to make the play look remotely like it was about the Trojan war, all the actors were wearing Elizabethan dress.

The screenplay, cinematography, directing, etc. was set up to deliver a Class B film, the central effort being on showing scenes of beautiful exposed female breasts.

It's obvious that there was a lot of time and effort dedicated into this: the animation is fluid, detailed and superb- the soundtrack isn't too memorable except for the ending song by Celine Dion (at least I think it was her).

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole is about a boy named Sebastian (Adrian Grenier) who fancies himself becoming a writer at some point, given he actually puts effort into it.

But then again, it looks like a lot of effort and millions of lira went into it, so I guess you gotta give them some credit for trying.

I think that word describes the movie itself, because no matter how much technology they tried to use to save this movie, the effort was completely futile.

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