41.   Most were content with the knowledge their efforts would help end the war.

42.   My reward is knowing that in some small way my effort helped advance your nest-egg-building progress.

43.   No new stations signed up, but his effort might help persuade some to buy the show for next season.

44.   Program officials declared that the effort had helped stave off the threat of a widespread famine.

45.   Restructuring efforts also helped the companies cut costs and improve their bottom lines, said Minoru Hasegawa, a steel industry analyst at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell.

46.   Rep. Ted Strickland, D-Ohio, also protested the failure to back up prayers with a call for renewed efforts to help others.

47.   Still, a round-the-clock effort helped reopen it in just five days.

48.   Such efforts helped Mrs. Dole place third in the straw poll, giving new hope to her struggling campaign.

49.   Such efforts might also help to ease anxious family members who lost a relative to violence, a situation that doctors said is often fraught with anger and distrust.

50.   That effort helped bring him home, McCain said.