Word: availing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dismay enlivens the potentially flat role of the conservative diplomat. Jill Abramson vamps madly in her part as the inane and brainless ingenue, but her squeaky voice, exaggerated walk, and batting eyes quickly become tiresome. Joanna Blum is convincing as the sophisticated woman-about-town who tries (to no avail) to pull the Bliss family out of their hopeless theatrics. She, like Abramson, has a formula of winking eyes and sleek walk which loses its charm after repeated usage...
...below fixed levels on some orders of less than $2,000. A $100 buy or sell order, which would cost an investor $7.04 under the old system, now costs $4.31; a $2,000 transaction that formerly entailed a $39.60 commission can be effected for $32.51. But for those who avail themselves of these cheaper rates. Merrill Lynch imposes stiff requirements designed to cut its own costs. Stock certificates must be held by the firm to avoid the paper work of transferring ownership; no credit or margin purchases are offered; customers must send their cash or stock in advance instead...
...said that he personally had given the Center's director, Imani Kazana, names of possible donors and twice raised the issue of the Afro Center's financial straits at committee meetings, to no avail...
...meeting on Saturday morning Essick explained that he remembered turning in Saturday's entry cards on Thursday, well in advance of the deadline. When notified of the disqualification on Saturday, he had no way of accounting for the cards' disappearance. He appealed the disqualification three times, but to no avail...
Still an extraordinarily attractive woman at 33, Baby Doe refused to remarry-or rather, she remained faithful to the Matchless. For the next 30 years, she wooed lenders and lawyers, fought off creditors and dug relentlessly into her mine. To no avail. Finally, on March 7, 1935, she was found frozen to death in a mountain shack beside the shaft...