Word: fruitlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...close look at the 1985 budget figures reveals how fruitless the President's efforts to cut Government spending have been. Reagan's reductions in social programs will produce 1985 savings of only $59 billion. By comparison, the budget shows that between 1981, Reagan's first year in office, and 1985, defense spending will rise $114.5 billion and interest on the national debt will increase $47.4 billion, largely because of the deficit...
...fruitless search for the holder of the lucky ticket had become a national obsession. Last week, nine days after the winning six numbers in Canada's interprovincial lottery were announced, the country's jackpot fever finally broke as Stuart Kelly, 57, and his wife Lillian, 54, stepped forward in Toronto to claim the largest lottery prize ever won in North America, a tax-free check for $13,890,588.80 (or more than $11 million U.S.). The Kellys had spent the previous week doing "a lot of sweating" with their lawyer as they tried to figure out what...
Normally, the SEC settles cases of "insider trading," a civil offense, with a "consent decree," in which the defendant neither admits nor denies guilt but promises to obey the law in the future. Thayer's settlement talks with the Government, however, have so far proved fruitless, in part because he has reportedly balked at a full public airing of the facts of the case...
...Capitol Hill last week, the ballooning federal deficit was being treated more as a conversation piece than an urgent problem. Despite a few genuine efforts to do what everyone knew had to be done-raise revenues and reduce spending-the week ended with a blizzard of babbling and fruitless finger-pointing between Congress and the White House that brought the Government once again to the brink of a breakdown. "I am not rinding any leadership at either end of Pennsylvania Avenue," said Democrat James Jones of Oklahoma, the chairman of the House Budget Committee...
Thus ended the first half of Harvard's 1983 season, five games marked by the fruitless search for a regular quarterback and the weekly lineup shuffles forced by a slew of injuries. Four weeks later, with just one game left on the agenda, the Crimson owns a share of the league lead and an outside shot at an outright title...