Word: fruitless
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Cornell had put a press in the backcourt on the inbounds pass with 6:43 left in the game. Harvard then began what seemed like an end less series of fruitless trips down the court Meanwhile, the Big Red began to feed leading scorer Rhonda Anderson inside Cornell tallied 10 more points, bringing the squad to within striking distance...
...search for their roots and origins; we Mexicans search for ways to modernize our country and open it to the future. The history of Mexico since the end of the 18th century has been the struggle for modernization. It is a struggle that has been frequently tragic and often fruitless. To ignore this is to ignore what is Mexico today, with its economic vicissitudes and the continuous zigzag of its political system...
...population. South Africa, for its part, has continually balked at the one-man-one-vote system which would leave whites and Afrikaners in the minority. This barrier, together with South Africa's insistence on keeping a buffer state between itself and Angola, has reduced negotiations for Namibian independence to fruitless, repetitive jockeyings...
Newsweek's call for fiscal austerity proves particularly fruitless because of the tremendous spending inherent in other parts of the program, particularly the establishment of millions of public-works jobs through the recreation of the Works Progress Administration. Even though deficits in and of themselves pose no great hazard to economic well-being, a policy of fiscal inconsistency does. A government that runs up huge debts while preaching the virtues of budgetary prudence confuses the public and clouds the private sector's ability to make sound decisions. That may be the only clear lesson of the Reagan Administration's experiment...
Meanwhile, new information has become available on the discovery of the latest sub-surface invasion. A Swedish fisherman claimed to have first sighted a foreign vessel in the Musko port nearly four weeks ago, days before the navy began its fruitless depth-charge barrage and sonar search...