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...later meeting between the city's planning board and Harvard planners to limit the construction's effect on residential areas proved fruitless. "They were very disappointed that nothing came of it," Wylie added. Former Mayor Alfred E. Velluci declared "a state of emergency" in response to Radcliffe's building plans and to Harvard's long-range proposal for more Observatory Hill construction...
Strauss spent the next two days trying to invigorate the autonomy talks; three previous meetings of the Israeli and Egyptian negotiating teams had bogged down in fruitless haggling over the agenda. At his first session with the delegations, Strauss urged the two sides to stick to substantive issues, and abruptly cut off digression. He later confessed: "They probably found me somewhat abrasive, pressing them harder than they liked. My style has a bit of impatience to it, and it's not totally uncalculated...
...Crimson with a pretty dodge and shot after eight minutes of a fairly lackluster first period had elapsed. Although Harvard's talented defense completely shut down the somewhat disorganized Ephmen attack and the Crimson monopolized the ground ball market, the team had taken no less than 19 fruitless shots before Faught finally broke...
...church hardly rushed to judgment. After years of official "discussions" that proved fruitless, formal proceedings against him began in 1976. At the hearings, hardly a trial, Schulz played to a sometimes cheering gallery of theology students. By the seventh and final session this Jan. 23 Schulz was accusing his accusers: "You are upholding your old notions of God so you can uphold your own institutional power." No leading West German theologian championed his cause...
...unions have been willing to settle for less. The truckers, for example, have spurned a 15% hike proposed by the country's haulage firms and are demanding 22.5%; public workers want up to a whopping 41% increase. Even Callaghan himself has violated his own guidelines. In a fruitless effort to head off the government employees' walkout, he dangled increases of 8% to 9% before the lowest-paid public workers, but to no avail...