In his return to the starting lineup on December 3 against the, Rice not only posted his first double-double of the season with 11 points and 11 rebounds, but also had his first career 4-blocked shot effort.
One theater artistic director warned in your article that one-shot efforts would not produce lasting results.
In a report to Congress in October, the Justice Department acknowledged the low yield from what it always considered to be long-shot efforts to develop cases worthy of prosecution.
Explorations of the "big questions," at least in films from either side of the Atlantic, are now more apt to be single-shot efforts or to come guarded with irony or distanced as screwball comedies, thrillers or other genre forms.
George C. Wolfe, the artistic director of the Joseph Papp Public Theater, which has a department devoted to audience development, commended Broadway for trying to reach out to new audiences but cautioned that one-shot efforts would not produce lasting results.
But despite the Chinese government's vast, often brutal attempts to control what the world knows about its repression, the U.N. announcement is also proof that Chinese citizens, journalists and advocacy groups are succeeding in long-shot efforts to get the truth out.
Lawyers raced to court in a long-shot effort to overturn the decision.
On a recent day, just when Mr. Lasher thought that a long-shot effort to eliminate seniority protection for teachers was slowly picking up support, his BlackBerry hummed with news: two lawmakers were having second thoughts.
Slowly but surely, though, the campaign has tightened, and it is now anybody's race.The contest is vital to the Democratic Party's long-shot effort to recapture the Senate.
As a last-shot effort, Democrats decided to take the repeal provision out of the larger military measure, in an effort to address the complaints of Senate Republicans that they had not been given enough time to debate the Pentagon bill.
JERICHO, West Bank — One year after the Palestinians' high-profile failure to win United Nations membership through the Security Council, they are returning to the General Assembly next week seeking largely symbolic "nonmember state" status, with a subdued campaign that many analysts see as a long-shot effort to win back the waning attention of the world.
