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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...
...creative artists in some medium) and teachers who are evocative with minimum hidden agendas, including crowd-pleasing. There are many great books, great inquiries, and great works that could be employed in building courses and endlessly reworking and rearranging them internally and in relation to each other. It seems fruitless to argue whether Aristotle is more important than Hobbes, Raphael than Vermeer, entropy than gravity. In choosing, it is important to think not only of what faculty are capable of teaching well, but of where students have been before they came, what their various subcultures on campus are and might...
...abstract, the forces disrupting Lebanon have been boiling for centuries; the pressure first became unbearable in the 1950s when the British Empire withdrew from the region, leaving a precarious and artificial structure of accord among the country's factions. All U.S. negotiations, though, have followed an endless and fruitless circle, attempting and repeatedly failing to normalize the region as it now stands...