Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huge financial transaction, which caused hardly a ripple on the world's money markets, demonstrated the ability of bankers and lawyers to use their amazing network of modern communications. After 14 months of mostly fruitless negotiations, the deal was concluded in less than ten minutes. -By Alexander Taylor...
...snail's pace of the University's bureacruatic channels, and when Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, suggested to some at the sit-in that they bring their plan before the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), they pointed out that avenue had already proved fruitless...
Following a fruitless first possession by Kirkland, which included an incomplete pass and a fumble, Quincy took over the ball at midfield, and then drove down field for a quick 6-0 lead...
Three cracks at the Cornell line proved fruitless, and Buchanan called timeout to consult with Restic. What followed was a gutsy play, with Buchanan sprinting wide on a fourth down bootleg and reaching the end zone untouched by a mesmerized Big Red defense. The half ended with the Crimson in front...
Thus ended, for the moment anyway, a bow-and-arrow rebellion that had nettled London and Paris during eight weeks of fruitless negotiations with Rebel Leader Jimmy Stevens,* a Eurasian and former bulldozer driver who declared the island independent of the New Hebrides central government of Chief Minister Walter Lini and renamed Espiritu Santo "Vemarana." The revolt embarrassed Britain and France, which have governed the New Hebrides as a joint colonial condominium for 74 years, particularly since the island chain was due to gain full independence this week...