1.  Like the earlier effort by Torcy it left no real legacy.

2.  An earlier effort at an international partnership, a joint venture with News Corp. to introduce satellite broadcasting to India, ended unhappily.

3.  An earlier effort to merge with a Dutch firm, Traffigura, fell apart last year.

4.  An earlier effort to secure their release by a Greek Cypriot politician failed.

5.  An earlier effort under the Clinton administration to settle the case was scuttled under pressure from the states.

6.  An earlier GOP effort to shrink the program drew a presidential veto, and White House officials said the new effort would meet the same fate.

7.  And Silver, who showed his literary influences a little too clearly in his earlier efforts, now knows just how to say what he has to say.

8.  Attempting turnarounds is nothing new for Fireman, though earlier efforts have yielded mixed results.

9.  But the research from that earlier effort could be incorporated in the missile defense system proposed in the new bill.

10.  China had bought it as part of an earlier effort to build its own photo-film industry.