11.   At times, the push to change the party was not an easy one, but the effort helped forge long-lasting ties among the members.

12.   Beyond the controversy over pay, the basic question of whether volunteer efforts really help is unlikely to surface amid the celebrations at Philadelphia.

13.   A national cable television advertising effort helped ignite that growth, Pleasants said.

14.   A little effort can help avoid other types of crime.

15.   Bush has said stronger recruiting efforts would help businesses owned by members of minority groups obtain government work.

16.   But customers were divided over how much the new effort would help ease the backups that began in Houston last June and spread throughout the West.

17.   But he was perhaps best known for his efforts to help Covenant House, a shelter for runaways.

18.   But that controversy and the basic question of whether volunteer efforts really help are unlikely to surface amid the hyperbolic outpouring at Philadelphia.

19.   But their efforts could not help Thereza Feliconio, a resident of the Woodstock Hotel, who was killed by the steel that fell into her building.

20.   But they also hope their joint effort will help dispel conventional stereotypes about people who have AIDS or the virus that causes it.