Efforts by local advocates to implement needle exchange programs to combat the spread of infection were obstructed for several years by downstate and suburban state legislators but a program was finally approved in June 2006.

Efforts to control inflation in Latin America, specially those in which the nominal exchange rate was used as main policy tool, backfired producing an initial expansion in output followed by a recession.

Efforts to purchase or trade these inholdings for other federal lands are ongoing and through partnerships with other entities, 10 million dollars is hoped to be raised to acquire private inholdings by 2016.

Efforts by the federal government to ensure workplace health and safety were minimal until the passage of OSHA.

Efforts to repair the bridge began immediately and Washington Secretary of Transportation William A. Bulley secured a commitment of federal emergency relief money for the project.

Efforts to redistribute plantation land resulted in decreased cocoa production.

Efforts to restore it centre around intensively managed land areas, such as gardens and golf courses.

* Zimbabwe: Efforts at land reform in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe moved, after 15 years, in the 1990s, from a " willing seller, willing buyer " approach to the " fast track " land reform program.

Efforts to get the station on FM began in 1970, originally with an attempt to purchase a plot of land near campus to build a transmitter.

Efforts are under way to redevelop the land the slow sand plant used, while maintaining some of the plant's sand silos for historical purposes.

Efforts in 1897 to turn the island into a resort ( as with nearby Cedar Point ) failed, and the land was used for farming and rock quarrying.

Efforts shifted from spraying to the use of bednets impregnated with insecticides and other interventions.

Efforts to trace it from Estonia back to Denmark have, however, been in vain.

* Efforts to improve fairness by reducing first-move advantage include the rule of swap, generalizable as " swap -( x, y, z )" and characterizable as a partially compounded and partially iterated version of the pie rule (" one person slices ; the other chooses "): One player places on the board x stones of the first-moving color and a lesser number y stones of the second-moving color (" slicing " in the pie metaphor ); the other player is entitled to choose between a ) playing from the starting position, in which case the selecting player is also entitled to choose which color to play, and b ) placing z ( usually-y ) + 1 ) more stones on the board at locations of that player's choice (" reslicing " in the pie metaphor, with limitations created by the board's existing setup akin to limitations arising from the existing slices in the pie ), in which case the former player is entitled to choose which color side to play.

Efforts are made to transport raw materials from the rest of the world and from the mineral-rich west to the Chinese plain.

* Efforts to protect the Earth from asteroid impact have been neglected.

Efforts to predict tertiary structure from the primary structure are known generally as protein structure prediction.

Efforts toward unification proceeded from 1988.

Efforts were made starting in the 1830s and continuing through the 19th century to detect infrared radiation from other astronomical sources.

Efforts to eradicate a small colony from Tasmania's Lake Crescent without using chemicals have been successful, but the long-term, expensive and intensive undertaking is an example of both the possibility and difficulty of safely removing the species once it is established.

Efforts to raise CHF 6. 2M ($ 7M ), to buy and save the villa of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard from most certain demolition are underway.

Efforts have been initiated to protect the property from logging and development.

Efforts have been made to port Coda onto Microsoft Windows platforms, from the Windows 95 / Windows 98 era, Windows NT to Windows XP, by means of open source projects like the DJGCC DOS C Compiler and Cygwin.

Efforts by Frank Miller, then owner of the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, Hiram Johnson and others, succeeded in gaining War Department approval to construct an airfield at Alessandro Field located near Riverside, an airstrip used by aviators from Rockwell Field on cross-country flights from San Diego.

Efforts by the southern communities from the late 18th century to build a number of relatively expensive construction projects along the coastline, such as a new road from Stonington Borough to Mystic and a bridge over Lambert ’ s Cove, at first led residents of the northern end of the town to oppose budgeting monies for these projects, and eventually caused the northerners to secede and form their own town.

Efforts to make the Trinity navigable for steamers continued from 1852 to 1940, when 236 miles of waterway had been completed and Liberty served as an inland port with barge connections to the Houston Ship Channel.

Efforts were made, especially in the Third Plan, to move industry eastward to make it safer from attack during World War II.

Efforts to create cellular directories have met stiff opposition from several fronts, including those who seek to avoid telemarketers.

Efforts were made to reassure the medical community that the laws were both constitutionally sound and specifically exempting physicians from liability.

Efforts are ongoing to eradicate the weevil from the rest of the United States.

Efforts to privatize other publicly held enterprises have stalled.

Efforts by members of the Vermont Historical Society and other historical groups through the years have followed up on rumored likenesses, only to come up empty.

Efforts to fund extraordinary expenditure on the conflict between Buenos Aires and the other provinces of the Confederation caused the fiscal deficit to skyrocket.

Efforts started in the 1930s and are still ongoing to repopulate the country with these trees, in Massachusetts and many other places in the United States.

Efforts have been made to revive them, such as the takeover of the Krishnarajendra Mills by the Atlantic Spinning and Weaving Mills, but they have run into other problems.

Efforts to attract high-tech businesses to the area have turned other former factory buildings into space for small technology startups.

Efforts by Dixiecrats to paint other Truman loyalists as turncoats generally failed, although the seeds of discontent were planted which in years to come took their toll on Southern moderates.

Efforts are underway to increase the amount of heathland on the chase, reintroducing shrubs such as heather in some areas where bracken and birch forest have crowded out most other plants.

Efforts to accommodate children on the autism spectrum, who may find playgrounds overstimulating or who may have difficulty interacting with other children, have been less common.

Efforts by the UN, prominent Afghans living outside the country, and other interested countries to bring about a peaceful solution to the continuing conflict came to nothing, largely because of intransigence on the part of the Taliban.

Efforts were made to mate the male, named Lonesome George, with other subspecies, but no viable eggs were produced.

Efforts to describe consciousness in neurological terms have focused on describing networks in the brain that develop awareness of the qualia developed by other networks.

Efforts were soon made to operate WBZA as a synchronous repeater of WBZ, by then at 900 kHz ; this process was difficult, as the two transmitters often interfered with each other even in Boston, and WBZA went back and forth between the two frequencies for nearly a year before finally going to full-time synchronous operation in June 1926.

Efforts to stabilize portions of the riverbank with rock, concrete, and other rip-rap materials have inhibited the river's ability to flood, meander, and form new cottonwood groves and wildlife habitat.

Efforts were made to reach the other provinces, including Quebec, to no avail.

Efforts are underway to reduce habitat for this species and find other ways to disperse the large numbers of gulls.

Some of these efforts have been described in other NGA publications, namely, The Big Reset: State Government After the Great Recession ( February 2010 ) and again in State Government Redesign Efforts 2009 and 2010 ( October 2010 ).

Efforts included the swift removal of roadkill and other dead animals from areas around the launch site.