Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break the Sabbath by running on Sunday, then so be it. Never mind that the race he was passing up was a qualifying heat for the 1924 Olympics in Paris. Never mind that the Prince of Wales (played with sublime twittiness by David Yelland) was enlisted in the fruitless attempt to force him to trim his conscience...
After neither side budged during 2½ months of fruitless talks, Poli said on May 22 that his members would walk out a month later if there were no "acceptable" Government proposal by then. The Administration responded by sending Secretary Lewis to replace Helms, whom the PATCO negotiators considered hopelessly rigid, as its chief bargainer...
Ethics in Government Act. The act, which included provision for special prosecutors, was created to prevent another Watergate cover-up by a politically tainted Justice Department. It led to long, sensationalized and fruitless investigations of alleged cocaine use by two of Carter's White House aides, Hamilton Jordan and Tim Kraft. Under the act, the Attorney General must ask a special court unit to name a prosecutor whenever there is "specific information" lodged against any of some 240 top officials, whether or not it meets the legal standard of "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed. Attorney...
...they find here. They arrive to discover insufficient practice facilities and uniformly express frustration with a Music Department which they say discourages performance. Pianists, in particular, face a difficult situation: Few opportunities exist for organized music performance, and even finding a good practice piano can prove time-consuming and fruitless. These musicians--not all of whom are necessarily headed for professional careers--have two options. They either leave--as Hunt did--or they quietly re-adjust their habits, and perhaps even their ambitions, to conform to the conditions of an unashamedly academic environment...
...master's degree from the University of Toledo, as she had also claimed. Questioned by her editors, Cooke admitted that she had exaggerated her credentials (she had attended Vassar for one year and earned a B.A. from Toledo). Nearly eleven hours later, after more grilling and a fruitless search for Jimmy's house in southeast Washington, Cooke admitted that the boy did not exist and that she had invented most of the story. Cooke resigned and went into seclusion. The Post promptly returned the award and apologized in an editorial: "This newspaper . . . was itself the victim...