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Harvard (3-3) couldn't muster an effective attack until late in the second stanza--save fruitless breakaways by Co-Captain Julie Sasner and forward Lisi Bailliere. And even then, the Cantabs could not score...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Brown's Three First Period Goals Do the Trick; Providence Frustrates Defensive Icewomen, 3-0 | 12/11/1985 | See Source »

...what may be a fruitless endeavor, the Freshman Union management has limited the amount of fruit per person to two pieces per meal in order to curb waste and theft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Apple a Day Not Much More | 10/25/1985 | See Source »

...General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mixed some tough talk on the nuclear arms race with conciliatory noises about the need for East-West detente. During a meeting in Moscow with former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, Gorbachev dismissed the first round of the Geneva negotiations, completed in April, as "completely fruitless" and insisted that U.S. plans for space weapons, or Star Wars, research would "dramatically increase the threat of a truly global, all-destroying military conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Carrot and Stick | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...would be fruitless to try to summarize in detail here the corpus of Klitgaard's analysis. Suffice it to say it is heavily quantitative, loathe to make categorical statements, and in general correctly skeptical of making too much of our ability to predict "success." But from his research, Klitgaard does hazard some striking and, in many ways, unsettling conclusions...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Selecting the Best and the Brightest | 6/5/1985 | See Source »

...about Marx and the British Museum? Yes, but one has to watch the silver; just because he is educated and urbane does not mean he is soft. Clearly, he is out to kill Star Wars. And he does have a temper. And so on. Only after long bouts of fruitless peering does one realize, again, that to scrutinize a Soviet leader is to scrutinize the Soviet state, and the state is a monument to impermeability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviets: A World Inspects the New Guard | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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