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...able to end the day of skirmishes without suffering apparent casualties of its own. A Cobra helicopter carrying two crewmen failed to return to the Wainwright after a reconnaissance mission. Iran claimed that it had shot down the gunship. After a fruitless search for the missing chopper, the Navy listed the two crewmen as missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Tangling with Tehran | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

...with the Harvard Corporation (to discuss the possibility of divestment from South Africa) and the push for students' rights to affect the tenure process have dominated council agendas since I have been a member. Although U.C. efforts to have an impact upon Harvard, national or world politics have proved fruitless, one cannot deny that the efforts existed. Taking a stand on political issues like that of the final clubs enjoys incontrovertible precedence; having an impact on such issues enjoys none...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kudos for the Council | 3/5/1988 | See Source »

...BANDONING its fruitless attempts to slash federal student financial aid programs, the Reagan Administration this month submitted its proposed education budget for Fiscal Year 1989. Calling for $21.2 billion in federal funding for education and for nearly $9 billion for financial aid programs, this year's budget request finally falls in line with spending levels supported by Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Calculated Increase | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...20th century dawned, the United States found herself unchallenged as the most powerful country in the world and, indeed, in history. But Japan and Europe have rehabilitated themselves and are now eroding American economic strength, while the United States has expanded its overseas commitments and wasted its resources in fruitless wars. The senselessly gargantuan Pentagon budgets of the 1980s are testament to America's desparate attempt to maintain a hegemony that can no longer exist...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: The Twilight's Last Gleaming | 2/13/1988 | See Source »

...next dilemma is "whose click is it?" Naturally both people try clicking the receiver, disconnecting one of them entirely. Attempts to ignore the other call are fruitless, as the phone company has taken the precaution of brain-washing the American people in childhood to allow an inordinate number of rings before hanging-up in order to "be polite." As if I am going to thank the fool who politely infests my home with a grating bell for 10 uninterrupted minutes--"Thank you so much for waiting...I really couldn't decide whether or not to answer, and you gave...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: The Waiting is the Hardest Part | 12/3/1987 | See Source »

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