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...commitment to the environment because of the White House's "failure to provide any leadership on the clean-air standards and on climate changes." Prior to his time with the Trust, Clapp worked on the U.S. House Budget Committee's environmental task force, where he tried, to no avail, to get the U.S. to ratify the Kyoto treaty. It has since been adopted by most developed nations...
...hospital, survival is no sure thing. Another woman, 20, was admitted in late July in early labor and began having seizures hours after giving birth. Through the night the nurses scrawled frantic notes, including this one at 1:30 a.m.: "Dr. was tried ... via mobile [phone] to no avail." The woman died two hours later. I find her husband grinding peanuts in a Freetown market. "She delivered a healthy baby," he says, showing me a photograph of his wife, a tall woman with a confident, beaming smile...
...Disconcerted by Fischer’s behavior at the workplace, Warfield claimed she turned to Levy for support on several occasions, to no avail. Warfield alleges that Levy abetted the continued gender discrimination by repeatedly failing to address the issues Warfield brought to light...
...Later in the first quarter, Scola hip-checked Kobe Bryant like a hockey goon. Bryant whaled, to no avail. Play on. "They tried to rattle us up out there," says Carmelo Anthony, who scored 21 points on a perfect 13-13 from the free throw line. "We did a hell of a job keeping our composure. I'm glad - it could have gotten ugly...
...playing basketball in short-shorts will at least give you something to think about during the long periods of nothingness. Nonetheless, throughout the film’s final sequences, I found myself waiting for something interesting to happen—anything other than the mundane—to no avail. What puzzles me most is that films like “Made of Honor” are still being made in an age when romantic comedy masterpieces like “Pretty Woman” and “Notting Hill” (oh, Julia Roberts, how high...