The draft is the product of a three-year effort by a committee selected by China's legislators.

The initiative does include one proposed new program, a $150-million, three-year effort to keep young people from joining gangs by giving them positive role models.

In the culmination of a three-year effort, the team created a snowflake formation.

Efforts to deregulate the utility industry have proved to be complex and difficult, as shown by the three-year effort in California.

The campaign, to be formally announced today, is the second part of a three-year, $40 million effort on behalf of the magazine industry.

Thursday's vote was the latest chapter in a three-year effort to reregulate the industry and force greater competition.

The agency also started a publicity blitz for the three-year effort, and officials say hundreds of calls are already coming in at some local offices.

The store is part of a three-year, $500,000 effort to "turn around attitudes about potatoes and promote their role in healthy diets."

Maryland imposed the rules in the first year of a three-year effort to increase the bay's crab stock.

In 1982, a three-year effort by the state's legislature began to create an educational environment for California's young artists.