Despite years of effort, law-enforcement and intelligence agencies' databases are not, by and large, linked.
The 8 year stock chart is probably the best report card for his years of effort.
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In biology every solid clue emerges after a dozen red herrings that can waste years of effort.
That means there is a HUGE chance you will have absolutely nothing to show for several years of effort.
That includes the telephone, which peaked below 95% after 100 years of effort.
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Never mind the years of effort H-P spent -- including a controversial merger with Compaq -- becoming the world's largest PC maker.
At a recent conference Mr. Ballmer admitted he thought as much as 200 man years of effort was wasted on Vista development in recent years.
So three years of effort and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars were thrown away and Los Angeles had to start over, in July 2011.
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After two years of effort, the plan has only inched forward, owing to mistrust among agencies and fighting over funding, officials in both countries say.
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The non-embedded computing world has put years of effort into partitioning systems between computing that happens at the client and computing that happens at the server.
Years of effort and hundreds of millions of dollars in investment have failed to yield truly sustainable forestry systems because conventional logging remains financially more attractive.
No matter how many years of effort they'd spent to reach the race, they knew there were real victims here, and the finish line didn't matter anymore.
After three years of effort, we deserved some success!
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Holmes, who until six days ago had a bag full of global bronze and silver medals to show for years of effort, has now been catapulted into the ranks of the greats.
The reason is that some engineering problems are so hard and require so many years of effort and layers of interacting systems that nobody is going to solve them and give them away.
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The agenda was clear: Sprint had a new music phone designed by Samsung, and the group was hoping for a positive reception from a man who has become to technology what Brooks Atkinson once was to the New York theatre someone whose judgment can ratify years of effort or sink the show.
And our agreements in Lisbon make concrete years of effort into a missile defense apparatus that provides greater protection for Europe and for the United States, and that he was pleased with that progress, and that that was not -- nothing in that, nothing in START constrained our ability to do that.
It will take years of focused effort to alleviate those problems.
It took years of focused effort among many nations to bring the NPT into force four decades ago and to sustain it as the most widely embraced nuclear agreement in history.
Ratification would cap years of CTIA effort.
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Despite five years of intense regulatory effort and management action, banks and financial institutions are still the least trusted sectors in the whole global economy, according to the just-published Edelman Global Trust Survey of 2013.
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And how carefully can they be expected to handle unpublished data, computer code, and research paper drafts that might represent the results of many years and many millions of dollars of effort by a large research team?
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He can even promise stable rates for the next three years in pursuit of this effort and thereby show how Fed policy is really quite transparent.
The eagles will be protected by a herd of buffalo bought several years ago in an effort to revive another part of the tribal history and culture.
HUD's aggressive response is part of a broader effort in recent years to step up enforcement of fair-housing policies.
Most notably, local permit delays have spurred Shell to abandon an Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project in Sicily after seven years of permit delays and BG to threaten to withdraw from a similar effort in the southern region of Puglia after 11 years of waiting.
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While the world has changed dramatically in even just the last 20 years, the value of focused effort has not.
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For the first five years of its existence, the effort was limited to just three employees working on a digital scheme.
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