Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether that fruitless confrontation can be avoided depends heavily on the types of programs Congress builds into the budget. The danger is that the House and Senate will insist on voting permanent programs such as the farm-support bill, rather than short-term stimulation measures that can be revoked when recovery makes them unnecessary. In that event, the public and private sectors of the U.S. will be placed on a collision course that would reverse the upturn and perhaps leave the nation worse off than it was before the recovery began...
...James J. McKenzie, chairman of the Union, said the appearance in Maine was part of the Union's new emphasis on educating the public. "We've moved away from formal intervention before the Atomic Energy Commission, which has proved to be a fruitless waste of time," he said...
...Wilson's possible successors, the thrust of my whole article was that the official "leaders" of the party are no longer in effective control of either party or national policy. If Wilson's successor is a "moderate," he might try to reverse this swing--but such speculation is fruitless...
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...singing and the shoving of people into the water went on for several hours by dockside but the loudspeakers stopped after "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and then "Waltzing Matilda." Even the vanquished crew of the Cross joined the hysteria. Alan Bond, who sank nearly $9 million into the fruitless campaign, put on a show for the crowd, jumping into the water nearly on top of his boat's designer Bob Miller...