Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alienated him from the U.S. and a large portion of the rest of the Western Hemisphere-intervention in the internal affairs of other states in this hemisphere and elsewhere. This is not to prejudge whether or not he might be willing to reconsider, but years of experience and a fruitless dialogue in the preceding Administration would make one very wary of being drawn into meaningless discussions for discussion's sake...
...fund had its origins in Brandeis's fruitless efforts, through Frankfurter, to stop the 1927 execution of Sacco and Vanzetti: in total, more than $50,000 passed from Brandeis to Frankfurter, before the latter joined the bench in 1939, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, for whom he--like Brandeis for Wilson--had become an inner-circle adviser...
...wild fluctuations in oil, food and housing prices, can cause actual inflation to run either above or below this so-called core rate for long periods. For the past several years, most economists figured that the core rate was stuck at 9% to 10%, kept there by a fruitless scramble among workers to jack up their pay in order to catch up with past inflation. Now nearly all economists agree that the core rate is coming down, and is at present probably about...
...some defense scientists, go considerably beyond previous U.S. assessments of the Soviet lead in the space arms race. The two nations agreed in 1967 to ban weapons of mass destruction from space, but efforts to extend the pact to cover antisatellite weapons, including space-based lasers, have been fruitless. The Pentagon says that since 1977 the Soviets have had an operational nonlaser anti-satellite satellite that explodes near the target, spraying it AVIATION WEEK & SPACE TECHNOLOGY with metal-piercing fragments. The n U.S. hopes to test its own satellite-killer system this summer: rockets launched from F-15 fighter jets...
...news media than by the government forces and guerrillas combined. Those who strike it lucky are envied by the others. One night, at the microwave station feeding the day's catch to the U.S.,-this reporter, who had found only sleeping soldiers after a day of fruitless searching, was told by a competitor that "ABC has bang-bang just like Viet Nam [the highest class of footage]. Tim Ross [ABC freelance correspondent] has a colonel in a jeep, just like central casting, saying they have a wounded black guerrilla they suspect is a Cuban...