Word: availed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon lobbying to have the project killed. The Chicago team redesigned the study several times to assuage conservative critics, dropping the questions about masturbation and agreeing to curtail the interview once it was clear that a subject was not at high risk of contracting aids. But to no avail. In September 1991 the Senate voted 66 to 34 to cut off funding...
...Crimson could only counter with one--a dandy by sophomore Daphne Clark--through that period of time and struggled madly to strike back in the last third of the game. But such efforts were to no avail...
...values. He talked about the problem of single parent homes and the instability caused by them. As a result of all this, Murphy Brown saw unprecedented television ratings and Quayle was vilified in the press for attacking single mothers. He protested that he had been misunderstood, but to no avail...
...admit that sometimes I've tried to use the Rangers' and Knicks' successes as a refuge from my eternal damnation as a Jersey sports fan, but to no avail...
Luma Al-Aptar '94 says that she was so bothered by the early morning noise she called representatives of both Harvard University and the City of Cambridge with her complaints, but to no avail...