The phrase "a modification effort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an attempt or initiative to change or improve something, often in a project or development context.
Example: "The team launched a modification effort to enhance the software's user interface based on customer feedback."
Alternatives: "a change initiative" or "an adjustment project."
Bevirimat, the prototype HIV-1 MI, was identified in a blind drug-screening assay through analyzing natural products coupled with an activity-directed structural modification effort.
Thus, reducing the modification effort to a minimum is very important for enhancing the project planner's performance.
Michael Fratantoni, vice president of research for the mortgage bankers, said, "The modification effort has certainly benefited a number of homeowners".
But perhaps we should not be too critical of anybody involved in the modification effort, either the administration or those trying to arrange modifications.
According to the General Accounting Office, by late 2000 NASA was planning to develop and equip the shuttle fleet with some $2.2 billion in safety upgrades -- "making it the most aggressive modification effort ever undertaken by the shuttle program".
Mr. Miller acknowledges that his loan modification effort, which is backed by 10 states, may not seem the obvious response from attorneys general, who typically focus on enforcing laws, not making policy.
It also questions the view, held by some overseeing the Treasury Department's loan modification effort, that mortgage documentation errors have no impact on the program.
The purpose of the modification effort is to make payments more affordable for borrowers.
The initial results of the president's $75 billion taxpayer-funded loan modification effort won't be known until late summer.
The point is that when this modification effort runs out and that will probably be another six months or so then there'll be a lot more foreclosures, and those houses will be dumped on the market.
