This action is part of an ongoing (effort) to centralize functions that make sense to centralize É (in) areas such as production and manufacturing.

This action is part of an ongoing (effort) to centralize functions that make sense to centralize ... (in) areas such as production and manufacturing.

It's fairly straightforward economics for the most part. The sale of textbooks overseas, while small, actually holds down the price of textbooks in the United States. Any time we increase the volume of books sold, development and production costs can be spread over a larger field of purchasers. Publishers set the price of textbooks sold overseas at prices to reflect local market conditions.

Only super-efforts count.

A well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one’, must perform certain actions and instinctively shrinks from other actions, he transports the order of which he is the physiological representative into his relations with other human beings and with things. In a formula: his virtue is the consequence of his happiness…Everything good is instinct—and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.

Probably three other guys on the team and I played them. They were hard hitting and showed lots of effort. I remember them never giving up.