Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table in Rome's Palazzo Chigi. Opposite him are three grim labor leaders. They want an immediate $34 monthly pay increase for hospital workers; failing that, 2.5 million public employees will stage a sympathy strike, followed by a crippling one-day general walkout. After six hours of fruitless talks, the Premier has had enough. "No!" he declares angrily. The nation's inflation rate is at 12%. To breach wage guidelines with yet another raise for a major union would destroy the government's efforts to stabilize the economy. Startled by the Premier's vehemence, the union...
...that he wanted to withdraw $33,500 in cash from an account he had opened only three weeks earlier. Suspecting a swindle of some kind, Gozzo summoned the police. When Evans arrived at the bank, the cops asked him to come to the station. After four hours of fruitless questioning, they placed a poster from the FBI'S most-wanted list before him. With scarcely a wince, he admitted: "All right...
...Four: Fall goeth before Pride. On first down Champi drops back and scrambles in search of a receiver until Yale defensive end Jim Gallagher spills him at the eight for a two-yard loss. Champi's fruitless search takes 11 seconds. 0:03. It translates to one play...
After a long and fruitless argument, Shea called a recess and conferred with other union members, telling them that if he insisted on the clauses, the hospital might insist on cutting down on some of the bread-and-butter concessions they made. But union members urged him to go ahead and press for the clauses, because they believed in them, Damman recalls, adding, "I was really moved to see people who get paid so little willing to sacrifice for an idea...
...streets. The police start worrying more about muggers and murderers. The constitutionality of the law is challenged. The hookers return, like the tide. Police chiefs tend to sound like a gloomy Greek chorus about this endless cycle. The revolving door of the court system is expensive and fruitless. Prostitutes plead guilty; the judge slaps down a fine and lets them go. To pay the fine, they have to turn more tricks and soon wind up back in court...