effort
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That next level could include expectations of higher likely returns once the bank completes its simplification efforts and achieves lower long-term minimum capital levels, McDonald added.
The Postal Service said it made the change as part of long-running efforts to modernize and cut costs.
She keeps just two baskets at her house — her first effort, which “wasn’t good enough to give anybody,” she said, laughing — and a basket hat started by her late sister, Sally Hammel.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet there have been recent efforts to diversify the Grammy electorate.
From Los Angeles Times
When this happens, overall rebuilding efforts can be slowed as lots sit empty and the positive impacts of mass rebuilding — people coming back to neighborhoods, stores reopening — are diminished.
From Los Angeles Times
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