Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reveals the intimate details of his teen-age sexual fantisties and experimentation, he speaks candidly about his relationship with his father, and he invites his readers to examine the intricacies of his two marriages and one divorce. The discussion is as scientifically fruitless as the rest of Bell's case studies, but it has the advantage of immediacy, and thus has far more substantial emotional impact. Here is the former football star struggling to understand his wife's demands to share in child care and housework; here is the aspiring professor putting aside his own career goals to enable...
...list of international conflicts stretches so long that individual events blur into a single image of fruitless struggle. While the British repay Argentine aggression with a surrealistic blitz on two of the world's most inconsequential sheep polities, the Italians and Iraqis are combining traditional Moslem internecine hatred with modern weaponry to produce thousands of dead bodies...
...practiced by its originator in Geneva, was the "preeminent social religion, and I've become more socially conscious from my reading of Calvin," he insists. "Pure social action is useful, and it gets a lot done. But without religion, speaking in eternal or ultimate terms, it will prove fruitless. Because the world is at last...
...collective pledge, first made in 1979, to increase defense spending by 3% per year. Haig, however, opposed such a numerical target because he believed it would be an unfair way to gauge the relative contributions of member nations, and over the past three years has led only to fruitless finger pointing. Washington dropped the idea. Besides, noted one high State Department official, "an attempt to reaffirm the 3% would have failed...
...decrees that force should not be used to resolve international disputes. President Reagan wrote personal notes to five key Latin American leaders with a similar message. Said he: "My Government fully understands the deep national commitment of Argentina to recover the islands and its frustrations of long years of fruitless negotiations...