Word: fruitlessness
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...much reduced level. For now, he'll work only three half-days a week, and won't be seeing patients. Neither he nor his wife Kate, who's a general practitioner, have worked since their daughter went missing. That tragic event vaulted them, and the so far fruitless search for Madeleine, into a global media spotlight, especially after Portuguese police officially named them as suspects in September...
...been limited (but wasn’t Justice, as well?), and the other class is probably not going to be offered again after this semester since the professor is visiting from another university. Outside of 77 Dunster St., I wandered aimlessly, nursing my dashed hopes, taunting petition forms, and fruitless course syllabi I had so optimistically brought along with me. But worse than my all but failed quest was a realization I slowly came to, a realization that applied not just to my specific plight: the criteria I had just been told about were wholly and shockingly arbitrary. I felt...
...their first punt return, a 54-yard run by Brannan Thomas, the Mountain Hawks were stymied, despite starting two of their first three drives on their own 49-yard line. One of those drives was converted into a field goal, while the other, Lehigh’s first, was fruitless despite being set up by a 45-yard kickoff return by John Kennedy to open the game. The Crimson used a 30-yard kick return by senior cornerback Steven Williams and pair of good drives to regain some equilibrium in first-half field position...
...started as a trip to Homegoods, and a fruitless search for dorm decor. I was wading through a center aisle, knee-deep in a melange of pleather ottomans, outdoor garden ornaments, and kitschy teacups, when I spotted a worn book on a shelf ahead: “A Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway. I lifted it from the shelf and turned it over, only to find the back blank, the dust jacket non-existent, and the cover glued to the “pages.” The book was a prop, a fake, meant solely for decoration...
...February, Kim's government agreed, during the so-called six-party talks, to shutter its Yongbyon nuclear plant within 60 days of signing what was then billed as a breakthrough agreement. In return, the North would get a variety of economic and diplomatic benefits. After several years of fruitless talks, this seemed like a major diplomatic victory for the Bush Administration and its partners - Japan, South Korea, Russia and China. But Kim delayed moving on Yongbyon until the North got back more than $20 million that had been frozen in a Macau bank account - funds the U.S. believes were tied...