Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those two games, however, overshadowed what was yet another frustrating and fruitless run through league play for Harvard, who finished the regular season in fifth place. Aside from the two-game Beanpot reprieve, the Crimson struggled consistently, as its longest regular-season winning streak was three games...
...last December, and that the company has only itself to blame for failing to seek clarification on the issues that may now delay the release of Windows 98. It's hardly surprising to add that the Tuesday night talks between Bill Gates and DOJ point man Joel Klein were fruitless, with Gates maintaining that Windows is not an operating system monopoly...
Palm grabbed an early lead because the power junkies in Silicon Valley couldn't believe users would want a computer with less, not more. President and co-founder Donna Dubinsky spent 18 fruitless months trying to convince venture capitalists and potential manufacturers that the key to selling handheld computers was simplifying them, not adding features. "Time after time, I'd go into meetings, and they'd say, 'You can't do a device like this without a PC card slot or a spreadsheet or whatever,'" she recalls. "But where was the evidence? It's very, very hard to go against...
Love is an arbitrary world, were using the same win-lose analytical thinking that elsewhere leads to success usually proves fruitless. Kate and Tim, also not their real names, started going out at the end of last year. Kate complains, "I hate it, I hate that bullshit-overanalyzing about feelings, how you feel about liking each other, what that means, to what extent, the equality of liking--or inequality." Only recently have they simplified their approach and reaped the rewards; as Kate adds, "But does that even matter when it's just to date?" Tim explained that when...
...will have to prove that Clinton's discussions with Lindsey on Monicagate damage control were vital to official government business -- a tall legal order. And the already sagging White House morale will not be helped by a round of news stories that are eerily reminiscent of Nixon's ultimately fruitless Supreme Court battle to keep the tapes private. On Ken Starr's side, fighting the privilege -- which may soon be extended to a slew of other White House confidants -- could bring the rest of his investigation to a screeching halt...