61.   Kimm did not respond to several telephone calls asking for comment, but the former Panacom official and two Korean officials described his efforts as highly unsuccessful.

62.   Knox praised Ito for trying to improve the conditions of sequestration, but depicted his efforts as too little, too late, and too tone-deaf.

63.   Labor unions, meanwhile, view the campaign finance effort as dead in Congress and are preparing to spend millions of dollars to defeat the state ballot proposals.

64.   Lawmakers in Washington see their efforts as a way to bring more industries and landowners together.

65.   Leaders of that community dismiss the entire effort as a witch hunt.

66.   Literary snobs and elitists will immediately dismiss this effort as visual Cliff Notes.

67.   Many Israelis dismiss the efforts as half-hearted.

68.   Ms. Tucker said she saw these efforts as providing the basis for an academic specialty in religious and ecological studies.

69.   Ms. Rodgers said she does not recall wanting to become a composer and views her early efforts as try-anything stunts.

70.   Nonetheless, it is hard to interpret the thundering indifference to the Kerry-Danforth effort as anything less than a repudiation of conservative fiscal planning.