Mr. Chubais is the most hated public figure in Russia, having led the initial, disastrous and much-detested effort to introduce privatization here.

That brings us to a disastrous effort from the Peppy mill called Sparky and His Gang.

James wrote many of these essays while he was busy with his ultimately disastrous effort to become a successful playwright.

There followed Mr. Chinh's disastrous land-reform effort and his restoration to the top rank of the party in 1958.

Later, Argentina's generals were gravely disappointed when the Reagan administration opposed their disastrous effort to seize the Falklands, then backed the country's return to democracy.

They have also been discouraged by what many say is the disastrous damage-control effort.

Politicians think the problem has only deepened since his disastrous effort to talk about tax increases in the 1984 Presidential campaign.

But Mr. Clinton, in an interview, acknowledged that his early missteps, notably his disastrous effort to push through a national health plan, played a role.

This fierce, profuse novel follows an exile family in Miami through a complex history of heroic and disastrous efforts at Cuban liberation.

But as he spoke he made one last despairing and, for him, disastrous effort, leaping forward with all his energy.