Hearst's initial effort to bolster Seventeen will involve some subtraction.
An initial effort to find space in Battery Park City was unsuccessful.
The Japanese government also made an initial effort to contact foreign companies for decontamination support.
An initial effort to rescue her, in October, failed, according to several people close to the family.
The initial effort to get approval for his clinic failed because abortion opponents worried about the destruction of unused embryos.
Orza informed the agents of a two-pronged plan as an initial effort to respond to concerns expressed by agents as well as players.
But Mr. Nader failed in April in his initial effort to gather the signatures required for a place on the ballot.
In his own initial effort to land work, Mr. Saunders found that the best he could do was $11 an hour.
Obama wrote a paean to Coburn in the new Time 100 issue, which came out just as Coburn sabotaged his own initial effort to help the bill.
Adams made an initial effort to bring Jefferson into the cabinet and involve him in shaping foreign policy, but Jefferson declined the offer, preferring to retain his independence.
The Guggenheim SoHo was a failed initial effort to open a branch in a hip gallery district at almost precisely the point those galleries had been engulfed by luxury shopping.
