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...hunt for the Green River Killer has pulled together police resources from throughout the Seattle area, but to little avail. A task force that currently includes 19 detectives, two FBI agents and a computer expert has already spent some $10 million and investigated 1,300 suspects. Yet an additional 6,000 names await full checking, a process that can take anywhere from an hour to six months...
...their efforts to escape from the locked boxcar, they left gashes on the wood lining of the heavy metal door and used railroad spikes in a vain attempt to gouge through the floor. They had removed their clothes to lessen the effect of the intense heat, also to no avail. Some had chewed their tongues during convulsions, spilling blood on their cast-off clothing...
...announcer called out the cadences and informed the spectators on the all too distant Harvard shore that their puppies were ahead, the heretofore slightly somnambulent spectators came to life. Two swans, obviously Yale decoys, strayed in front of the Harvard shell, but to no avail. With five lengths of open water to spare, the freshmen cruised to their first Red Top triumph...
Representatives from higher education organizations fought hard to insert provisions which would protect their members. The two largest organizations, the American Council on Education (ACE), an umbrella group of almost all colleges and universities in the nation, and the AAU, lobbied especially hard, but to no avail--The bill passed...
...Europe and not disperse them elsewhere." Translation: the financially battered, government- owned French company (estimated 1986 losses of $660 million or more on sales of around $21.6 billion) has spent $650 million during the past eight years in gradually assuming its controlling interest in AMC, but to little avail. Last year AMC's sales of the Alliance amounted to only 77,005 cars, down 41% from 1985 and the worst figures the company has released in 30 years. Renault still hopes to export some $5.8 billion worth of autos and spare parts to the U.S. over the next five years...