21.  His early efforts included several gangster films.

22.  His early hiring efforts frequently drew puzzled looks from foreign performers.

23.  His early efforts helped form the basis for molecular maps that have made the tomato genome one of the best known in the plant world.

24.  His early efforts to keep downtown vibrant included offering free parking to his patrons.

25.  It appears now that the early disjointed effort may be coming together.

26.  Instead, it had focused its early Internet efforts on developing sites related to Disney content.

27.  Linehan remained in New York during early efforts to unravel the loan scheme, then returned to Boston.

28.  Miller paid for his early efforts with bake sales, carwashes and a golf tournament.

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

30.  No one is going to mistake this for art, but you could say the same about the early efforts of Madonna and Janet Jackson.