Word: availing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months, anti-sweatshop activists have been raising the same questions, to no avail. But in the past two weeks, Harvard's two largest apparel makers, Champion and Gear For Sports, have each made stunning announcements: the answers are near...
...Harvard protested that the goal was too high to no avail, and the Crimson knew it was in trouble...
...influential forester Aldo Leopold wrote, "I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are 40 freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" Fifty-four years later, it's not so easy to find wild country to be young in. For now, however, a few tracts of wilderness still endure. We should be grateful for this and appreciate them as long...
Geller says many friends and colleagues, including the presidents of other universities, have interceded with the College on her behalf--all to no avail...
...Fortier lawyer Michael McGuire argued to no avail that the four years his client has already served was enough ?- that Fortier was "cast aside conveniently" by the government after helping to bring Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to justice after the carnage. "This man was the difference in both of those cases, your honor," said McGuire. "This man has given a lot. I don't know if he'll be credited for it. He should be given credit." For Bebber, a reduction from 171 1/2 years to 12 was more than enough "credit" for a man who pleaded guilty...