Vice President Al Gore often says the Clinton administration has reduced fraud and improved service to the public with a seven-year effort to "reinvent government."

In 1813 King began a seven-year effort that started with his petition to Massachusetts for separation.

But he said that the seven-year effort to select highly qualified commanders and investigators after the Mollen Commission's findings had improved morale and changed perceptions.

This seven-year, $45 million effort (which meant closing the museum for the last two and a half years) has been a particularly painful saga.

The new 63-year lease requires the city to drop a lawsuit and settle another in its seven-year effort to get millions in disputed revenue from the agency.

The 240-to-189 vote, at 2:43 a.m., capped a seven-year effort to ban the large unlimited donations to political parties known as soft money.

Vassar's intensive seven-year effort to recruit and retain minorities has involved alumni, faculty members and students.

The firm was selected in recognition of its seven-year effort that freed two Mexican nationals wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

This was the crowning moment of a grueling seven-year effort by Centurion Ministries on Cook's behalf.

The Red Shoes underwent a complete restoration as the result of a seven-year effort.