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After speaking to Carter, Vance had one more fruitless session with the Israelis, then returned to Cairo to brief Sadat before flying to Washington. By this time, his team was so demoralized that one member cracked bitterly, "This calls for a trip to the Wailing Wall...
...table in Rome's Palazzo Chigi. Opposite him are three grim labor leaders. They want an immediate $34 monthly pay increase for hospital workers; failing that, 2.5 million public employees will stage a sympathy strike, followed by a crippling one-day general walkout. After six hours of fruitless talks, the Premier has had enough. "No!" he declares angrily. The nation's inflation rate is at 12%. To breach wage guidelines with yet another raise for a major union would destroy the government's efforts to stabilize the economy. Startled by the Premier's vehemence, the union...
...that he wanted to withdraw $33,500 in cash from an account he had opened only three weeks earlier. Suspecting a swindle of some kind, Gozzo summoned the police. When Evans arrived at the bank, the cops asked him to come to the station. After four hours of fruitless questioning, they placed a poster from the FBI'S most-wanted list before him. With scarcely a wince, he admitted: "All right...
...Four: Fall goeth before Pride. On first down Champi drops back and scrambles in search of a receiver until Yale defensive end Jim Gallagher spills him at the eight for a two-yard loss. Champi's fruitless search takes 11 seconds. 0:03. It translates to one play...
After a long and fruitless argument, Shea called a recess and conferred with other union members, telling them that if he insisted on the clauses, the hospital might insist on cutting down on some of the bread-and-butter concessions they made. But union members urged him to go ahead and press for the clauses, because they believed in them, Damman recalls, adding, "I was really moved to see people who get paid so little willing to sacrifice for an idea...