Word: fruitlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard's money is being used for those purposes. I am not advocating that policy because I think Harvard ought to use its economic muscle to force corporations into changing their policy. I don't advocate that course for two reasons. One is that I think it is a fruitless policy. Harvard doesn't have the leverage to have that kind of impact. Secondly, I think it ill behooves an institution that is founded on the premise of keeping outside organizations from putting pressure on it to then turn around to use its economic assets to try to put pressure...
Though the Social Democratic movement was being dismissed only weeks ago by both Labor regulars and Tories as a press creation and a fruitless exercise by a few elitists, no one is laughing now at what the party might achieve. Labor's leader, Michael Foot, pleaded with the defectors "until the twelfth hour" not to leave the party, but the appeal came too late. The Tories are equally fearful that some of their own restive dissidents may find their way to the Social Democrats. Conservative Party Chairman Lord Thorneycroft last week issued a letter asking Tories to stick with...
...Dartmouth players that did come to Cambridge must have known that it would be fruitless to run the ball against a Crimson squad that had crushed the Green--even with 25 points from Lawrence--by 21 in Hanover earlier this season...
...rented car reached Hartford, however, a jittery Murphy decided he had to check the trunk to see if in fact the trio had remembered to bring the broadcast equipment. The trunk was empty, at least as regards to mixers and microphones. A very upset trio decided it would be fruitless to return to Cambridge for the equipment, and so continued to Philadelphia--home of Pat's cheese steaks and other culinary favorites--in hopes of securing what they needed from the Penn radio station, WXPN. When they arrived in the City of Brotherly Love and managed to seek out Penn...
Walton has subsequently charged in a lawsuit that the Trail Blazers' doctor injected him with pain-killing drugs to enable him to play, thus aggravating his injury. A long and fruitless rehabilitation began...