For months, the conservative effort to shatter organized labor's political war chest here in California looked like a sure winner.

Over the years, the council has become a staging ground for conservative efforts to make the Republican Party more socially conservative.

Even though polls showed support among a majority of Americans, it wasn't enough to overcome the conservative effort on the other side.

For us to put all of the surplus into tax cuts, I think is not a conservative effort.

What we see now is a concerted conservative effort to dismantle the programs that have allowed the elderly and the poor to live with dignity.

But he and President Bush could also be signaling a new conservative effort to undo Federal rules that protect the workplace.

Reverting to strict separationism will not defeat conservative efforts to put the government on a religious mission.

The breed is on the wane, due to poor government support for indigenous breeds, although individual conservative efforts are bearing some fruit.

We are terribly concerned that the children are being given short shrift in a liberal and conservative effort to get their parents to work.