Even so, in an effort to accommodate a prosecution widely regarded as orchestrated by the Kremlin, Mr. Khodorkovsky at one point offered a rare mea culpa for some of his business practices.
While institutions such as Columbia University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill say they will exert some effort to accommodate a spouse when recruiting a seasoned scientist, they are not likely to facilitate two jobs for a researcher whose track record is not yet established.
But that, plus Russia's deepening membership in the G7 (soon to be G8) group of leading industrial nations, makes the charge that the West is attempting to isolate Russia absurd.Indeed, the greater danger is that, in its efforts to accommodate a surly Russia, NATO will be tempted to offer not too little but too much.
Network officials explained that the unusual decision, one of the rare times the network has offered competing broadcasts in a single time slot, was made in an effort "to accommodate all of our audiences".
Furthering the calculated effort to accommodate all and irritate none, glassed-in smoking lounges featured televisions showing the game.
This is not the first effort to accommodate users on a local level.
Educators have instituted double shifts and increased hours in an effort to accommodate additional students, including a huge influx of pupils whose families have fled war-ravaged areas for the relative security of the capital.
What started five years ago as an effort to accommodate maddeningly complex schedules in a relatively small space quickly became a sort of evangelical mission to make progressive education more, well, progressive: embracing depth over breadth, allowing for more experiential learning in Central Park and at nearby museums, and, administrators said they hoped, reducing stress.
In an effort to accommodate the zoning board, they have a contract to buy three-quarters of an acre directly behind the Konikov house.
This year Intel, the world's largest chip maker, introduced a 3-D transistor that pushes a thin pillar out of the plane of the silicon surface, in an effort to accommodate billions of tiny switches on a single microprocessor.
In recent years, according to the center's staff, that resource, situated in the vastness of the 1,212- acre state park, has been hard pressed and overbooked in its effort to accommodate its 700,000 visitors a year.
