Word: avails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THAT it hasn't been tried. In 1787 James Madison fought--unsuccessfully--to empower Congress to supplant state charters of corporations with federal charters when the public good required them. In 1901 President Theodore Roosevelt suggested--to no avail--that "the Government should have the right to inspect and examine the workings of the great corporations engaged in interstate commerce." Thirty-seven years later, populist Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney proposed a more far-reaching program called the "National Charters for National Business." It bombed...
...agreed that I should dispose of my collection of 42 years of TIME magazines. But after I mentioned to a friend the dilemma of how to dispose of them, she requested the issues for her children's birth dates. Her mother then suggested that others might want to avail themselves of the same opportunity...
...have made political violence a way of life with an average of eight to ten killings a day. Mindful of the military's recent warning that it would move in unless terrorism is controlled, police last week arrested 98 suspect leftists in a four-province sweep. To little avail: in Istanbul, a leftist group set fire to eight banks...
...programs she wants to watch. Only when Bessie decides that all natural laws, including gravity, are myths does she receive her alarmingly literal comeuppance. Her niece finds her floating like a balloon about the house, being hectored and scolded by mysteriously televised rabbis. She pleads her disbelief, to no avail. "Foolish woman," a rabbi replies, "a soul goes in and out of belief a hundred times a day. Belief is too fragile to weigh a minute on. You stopped running after Him, looking for Him, struggling with Him. Even His Laws you turned from...
Burke struck twice--a slapshot and a third rebound during a goalmouth scramble--as Harvard came out flying in period three, but to no avail. Dennis blanked the icemen for the final 10:20. "He was definitely the best goalie we've faced all year," commented freshman Greg Britz, noting Dennis' adeptness at clearing rebounds effectively and cutting down the angles. "We just got frustrated...