Word: availing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that, he can't resist kibbitzing. For one thing, Iacocca has wanted for years to make Chrysler a truly international operation with sales and manufacturing capabilities around the world. In the 1980s he tried to enter his company into deals first with Volkswagen, then with Fiat, but to no avail. "We do not have a global presence," he complained last week. "We're big in Canada and we're strong in the U.S. Other than that we really have no position." The current Chrysler management might well ask who exactly...
...light of a candle, he found several bulging portfolios of drawings and watercolors. Their names leaped out at him: Durer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh. Amazed at the discovery, Baldin begged his officers for transport space to carry this abandoned trove back to the Soviet Union-to no avail. There was no room on the trucks, and the brigade was pulling out in the morning...
...Herald's major concerns about making the paper avail- able on-line was a decrease in subscriptions...
Threats, however, are to no avail. "They lower their voices for about 30 seconds but then they're up again at 1,000 decibels," Sam finishes sadly...
...sure it would be of avail to talk to the WHRB people," said Vanessa L. Ryan...