Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years to establish our right to keep it." Finding it involved 400,000 miles of crisscrossing the ocean, towing special magnetometers developed by Treasure Salvors' Fay Feild, an electronics engineer. Occasionally, Fisher brought in seers, psychics and trained dolphins to break the technological tedium. There were thousands of fruitless dives into holes blown through 20 ft. of sand. And in 1975 there was tragedy. A week after the Fishers' oldest son Dirk discovered bronze cannons that irrefutably identified the Atocha, he and his wife and another diver drowned when a salvage tug capsized...
...looked as though the Crimson was in for some more frustration. After an embarrassing first period and over 10 minutes of fruitless attacks on the UNH net, it seemed like the Wildcat blueliners and goaltender Todd Pearson might just be too much for the Ha Harvard offense...
Shelter has been searching since November for a suitable building for a new operation for which it has obtained funding. The search has been fruitless thus far--made more difficult by Cambridge's zoning ordinance, which limits the number of community residences allowed in any one of the city's 10 neighborhoods...
Much of the blame for the guerrillas' success is placed on Salvadoran Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia. Ignoring U.S. military advice, Garcia has wasted the energies of the 22,000-man Salvadoran army on massive and fruitless sweep operations in the hinterlands, while allowing the guerrillas to exercise their mobility fully in economic sabotage and spectacular urban takeovers. Says a Western military analyst in El Salvador: "There has to be a complete shake-up over at the Salvadoran high command, and a lot of changes within about 60 days, or this thing is going to get a whole...
Kohl now faces a growing fear among West Germans that U.S.-Soviet arms talks will prove fruitless, making deployment of the U.S.-made Pershing II and cruise missiles all but certain. According to a recent poll, 54% of Kohl's Christian Democratic supporters favor some kind of postponement in deploying the weapons, as do 65% of Social Democrats and 70% of Free Democratic voters. As a result, many West Germans are calling for an "interim solution" that would trim the number of missiles on both sides or put off deployment while talks continue. Kohl has rejected any compromise, arguing...