And he has met his demise because the government and the people of Yemen have joined the international community in a common effort against Al Qaeda.

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No longer will we accept anything less than a common effort, made in good faith, to solve our toughest problems.

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Campus Pride says that after Windmeyer and Cathy began to discuss their beliefs and points of view, it suspended a national college campaign against the restaurant in an "effort to find common ground" around the values of respect and dignity Chick fil-A published on its website.

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Still, there may be a few, scattered reservoirs of common sense that can be mined in the effort to bring some sanity to our circumstances.

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This is the way to create such an effort and have people sit around in the same table working together with a common goal.

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And the mere threat of such a prospect may - as it has in the past - prompt a redoubled effort to shore up the European Union and its faltering common currency, the Euro.

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In an effort to find common ground on education, the president-elect met with a bipartisan contingent of congressional lawmakers -- although key Democratic players in education such as Sen.

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