How else can one read his veto of the four-year, bipartisan effort to restore the reach of antidiscrimination laws narrowed by a Supreme Court ruling?

It was a four-year $7.6 million effort, launched in April 2003, to help accelerate the market for financing solar home systems in southern India.

Now, five years into the city's 10-year housing plan, a four-year effort is starting to sharply reduce the central management function.

But the community proposed less substantial cuts than the United States was looking for, and the four-year, 108-nation effort to lower world trade barriers collapsed.

The bishops' document, the result of a four-year effort, gives specific instructions on some of the conundrums now faced in many parishes.

The dispute over farm payments has stalled the Uruguay Round, a four-year effort to overhaul the world trading system.

They have keys to the building, and Randall has been central to a four-year ongoing effort to install a second bathroom.

The suit detailed a four-year effort by Xerox to "burnish and distort" its financial results.

After a four-year effort, the park reopened in 1992 to widespread acclaim.

The proposal was the culmination of a more than four-year effort by city and federal officials, developers, private organizations, and citizens.