But if livestock loss is not the real issue, what exactly has made wolf restoration such a complicated, divisive and expensive effort?

Also at issue is whether to trim the magazine's high editorial budget and rethink its strategy of making expensive efforts to build circulation.

Starting in July 1968, Porsche made a surprising and very expensive effort to take advantage of this rule.

"One can conceive of immensely expensive efforts," he said.

More recently, other big-name investment bankers have fled banks despite expensive efforts to retain them.

It is an expensive and risky effort for Ford, which lost money in Europe in four of the last seven years.

He indicated that expensive and extensive efforts on their part to avoid violating the law might also prove futile.

Some criticize expensive efforts to prolong an older person's life by just a few years, if that.

In the past two years, Sugarbush has made a major - and expensive - effort to regain its place in the snow.

From the fund industry's point of view, the initially expensive effort is worth it to snare investors who can build up big accounts over time.