11.  But critics shot back that the company is trying to undercut federal efforts to regulate tobacco as a drug and state efforts to penalize sales to minors.

12.  But GE has taken an aggressive stand against federal efforts to make its plants and the contaminated river stretches Superfund sites.

13.  But federal efforts to regulate the Internet are on hold pending a Supreme Court review of a case involving the Communications Decency Act.

14.  But the hearings devote much more effort to identifying successful reform programs in schools, than to some federal efforts.

15.  But the president has at least restarted the federal effort to face up to the problem.

16.  But the fluctuating price of oil has hampered federal efforts to mount a sustained campaign for energy efficiency and alternative fuels.

17.  Called Angel Capital Electronic Network, or ACE-Net, the service is the first federal effort to link companies and angel investors nationwide.

18.  Cherkasky asserted that the funding crisis would jeopardize the long-standing federal effort to clean up the Teamsters.

19.  Clinton credited her with pressing him to expand federal efforts to subsidize local bond issues to help underwrite school construction.

20.  Coalition members called for a federal effort to deal with homelessness by creating jobs, building affordable housing and making health care accessible.