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...percent at the high school level), the appeals court ruled that “massive demographic shifts,” rather than the intentional action of school officials, was the cause of any remaining segregation in Charlotte’s schools. The black plaintiffs argued, to no avail, that district officials knew of practical steps they could take to eliminate the disparities...
...Indoor NCAAs, she cleared her third jump at 1.86 meters to win the meet. At last week’s meet, she came close to pulling off a similar feat at 1.83 meters to move up to second place, but to no avail...
Instead, last fall Andersen's audit team worked frantically (to no avail) to find legal accounting tricks so that Enron wouldn't have to restate its earnings downward by $591 million and post a $1 billion loss. Prosecutors allege that around the same time, Andersen shredded trunkloads of documents it knew might help the Securities and Exchange Commission investigate Enron's demise...
...play could have been flagged for interference. Walsh certainly thought it should have been—the Harvard skipper had an animated argument with the first-base umpire over the non-call, but to no avail...
...wrote in a subsequent e-mail. So I waited a week, then e-mailed her back. This time she said she was going skiing for four days and would contact me when she returned. She never did. I sent one final e-mail, to no avail...