It lost millions on Viewtron, an aborted experiment with videotext in the early 1980s, and then millions more on Information Design Lab, an early effort to deliver electronic news using flat-panel displays.
"I'm eating a burrito, and I'm not killing anyone," goes an early effort.
In 1992 he led the EU Fast programme, an early effort on global sustainability.
It's just an early effort to put some claims and counterclaims out there, while I continue to look into it.
Next came an early effort to build a career as a photographer ("I wasn't very good," he says.
As a teen-ager, he had a printing press and amused friends by printing broadsheets and stories, including an early effort titled "Revenge! or, The Newsboy's Adventure".
This seems to be an early effort to use the idea behind WikiLeaks, a repository of secretive or difficult-to-obtain documents, for a specific political end.
Since his appointment, he has signaled his support for an early effort to reform synod voting procedures that allowed a minority to block the move.
As it happens, fear-mongering about Asian immigrants was part of an early effort, in the eighteen-nineties, to compromise the Fourteenth Amendment.
Similarly, the brinkmanship of the two subordinates was seen as an early effort to strengthen their positions for the day when he does leave office.
The group made an early effort at adjusting times when it published a set of tables in the late 1980's.
