Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deepest change may be a planetary intuition that military war is pointless. Except in atavistic places like the Middle East and Ireland, conquering territory is a fruitless and counterproductive exercise. Why conquer land? The Soviets have more trouble than they can manage with their nationalities. The new world's battlegrounds are markets and ideas. The Japanese and Germans, having learned their military lessons the hard way, re- entered the war by other means...
Suddenly, the beeps stopped coming. Soviet scientists last week lost track of one of their nation's most highly touted space projects: Phobos 2, an unmanned craft launched last July to dispatch two landing probes onto the Martian moon Phobos. Repeated attempts to re-establish contact were fruitless. A companion vessel had been lost in space last August. The two spacecraft were part of the longtime Soviet push to explore Mars, an effort that Moscow has several times invited the U.S. to join. Although Phobos 2 had managed to send back information on the Martian atmosphere, magnetic field and environment...
...when charged with being anything other than completely tolerant, but this self-conception simply is not very realistic. We have all grown up in the same world, which tries to to teach us very intolerant values. We have all swallowed homophobic attitudes: straight, bi and gay alike. It is fruitless to waste energy sidetracking the issue to defend our egos to each other; we must take what we have and make it better. There is no use for complacency here, only improvement. Elizabeth Flax...
Harvard Tri-Captain Jen White faced only 12 shots on goal as compared to the Tigers' Kari Rosencranz, who had to contend with 36. Even a ploy on the part of Princeton to move leading scorer Molly Marcoux back to second line to exploit supposedly weaker opposition proved fruitless, save for a tally late in the third period...
WORLD: After more than nine years of fruitless fighting, the last Soviet troops head home from Afghanistan...