51.  That suggests federal efforts stabilized the number of poor families, keeping the misery from spreading but failing to make a major dent in the problem.

52.  The bill sets up a new interagency Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, headquartered in the State Department, to direct and coordinate federal efforts in this area.

53.  The bill also provides for an office within the State Department that would direct and coordinate federal efforts to deal with trafficking in human beings.

54.  The Columbia probe is part of a broader federal effort to target fraudulent billings and other health schemes.

55.  The decision will have no immediate impact on federal efforts to regulate tobacco because it will be stayed pending appeal.

56.  The debt-collection bill would make the Treasury a clearinghouse for federal efforts that do not involve litigation.

57.  The federal effort will take a variety of forms.

58.  The fact that booming global imports have overwhelmed federal efforts to protect the public from food-borne disease is recognized, say investigators from the General Accounting Office.

59.  The federal effort is part of a new government effort to limit illegal and legal immigration.

60.  The latest economic stimulus proposal follows a series of federal efforts that have failed to stem a year-long slide in economic activity.