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...months I tried to pick up the scent, but to no avail. I heard rumors of him resurfacing last spring. Stories of a triumphant return to rescue the rudderless Celtics and steer them to a showdown with the Lakers. Dead...
...deperately rummaged through my knapsack--as the other attendees of the Mather Hebrew Table looked on--but to no avail. I then faced a terrible dilemma--to indulge in the ice cream sundae and later suffer the consequences or to stoically resist the urge and explain to the Hebrew table (in Hebrew!) why I would let an absolutely enticing ice cream sundae go to waste. I chose the former but never again...
...sometimes the outcome is very bad. Some search for decades to no avail; others learn that their child has been abused, that their mother committed suicide or that they are the product of incest. Even a happy reunion can produce "an overwhelming feeling of anger and confusion, and rearrange everything in one's life," says Linda Brown, co-author of a forthcoming book on the subject, Birthbond...
...ticket holders and gives them a chance to win a $1 million jackpot by whirling the Big Spin wheel. But in 222 tries over the past 18 months, no one has hit the jackpot. Officials added a second $1 million slot to the 100-slot wheel, but to no avail. Without a big winner to hype, ticket sales have dropped from $23 million in fiscal 1988 to $11.2 million...
...corporate raider, Fruehauf in 1986 went private in a leveraged buyout that sent the company into a skid from which it never recovered. After borrowing $1.5 billion to repurchase its stock from shareholders, the Detroit company frantically sold one division after another to lighten its debt burden. To no avail: when it completes the sale of a subsidiary that makes wheels and brakes later this summer, Fruehauf, which had 1986 revenues of $2.7 billion and ranked among the 150 largest U.S. manufacturers, will be an empty shell existing in name only...