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...fruitless hunt for WMD has not cost American lives. The failure to understand that the war was not over--and in some ways, had barely begun--when Bush stood on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln, has. The war that was fought in Iraq--with a swift march from the south to Baghdad--was not the war that Pentagon planners had anticipated. Right up to a few weeks before the start of hostilities, plans had called for the 4th Infantry Division to advance from Turkey through northern Iraq. Administration officials, especially Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz...
...Mainassara, as it turned out, didn't live long enough to keep his promise to visit Saddam - he was assassinated in April 1999. Al-Zahawie thought nothing more of his fruitless African tour, and left his post in 2000, retiring in Amman, Jordan...
...appealing to the White House because his efforts to sway Sharon on this question have been fruitless. Israel plans to release up to 520 prisoners, including some members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But that's only 10 percent of the total number, and Israel is making clear it won't release anyone convicted of killing Israelis, and will act gradually as it sees Abbas cracking down on those organizations. That's unlikely to be enough for the militants, and may therefore not be enough for Abbas, who insists that prisoner-release is the single most important means of establishing...
...series of events conspired to derail the policy. The Algerians, who shipped the LNG, jacked up the price. The Carter Administration and the natural-gas and pipeline companies balked at paying more. After months of fruitless negotiations, the deal unraveled. The ships went elsewhere. Cove Point and two other plants closed. It was the end of the LNG experiment. But the shortage has triggered a scramble to reverse course. Today Cove Point is being expanded and will reopen soon. The plants in the three other states are already open, and plans are on the drawing board for two dozen more...
After his fruitless talks with Ellison, Conway kept looking for a partner, and found it in J.D. Edwards. Their businesses were widely regarded as complementary. PeopleSoft tended to sell to high-end firms, J.D. Edwards to the middle market. Four days later, Ellison announced his competing bid for PeopleSoft. Coincidence? Conway thinks not. "If we were ever looking for confirmation that the J.D. Edwards merger was right for the industry," he says, "Larry provided...