Word: fruitlessness
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Even in the fine points of his strategy, Saddam evoked echoes of the past. He excited his people with impassioned speeches full of grievances toward their neighbor. He exploited a border dispute, scheduled negotiating sessions that were intended all along to be fruitless, and cooked up a request for intervention by supposedly downtrodden locals. The invasion sequence itself was classic '30s: bluff, feint and grab...
...next birthday, my parents bought me a gift that has enchanted youngsters for decades--a shortwave radio. Those fruitless nights of searching for stations from Trenton were over. This was the big time...
...From the fruitless quest for the legendary Fountain of Youth to the current popularity of plastic surgery and Retin-A face cream, the search for ways to erase the sags and wrinkles of aging has never stopped. Now it appears that a partial antidote to the ravages of time may already lie within the human body. Last week, researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that injections of a naturally occurring substance called human growth hormone can firm up skin, build muscles and trim...
...Faculty A. Michael Spence announced his plans to head west for the sunny climes of Stanford University, speculation has been rampant in the local press that Bok will name Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr. to succeed him. Second-guessing high-level appointments at Harvard is generally a fruitless endeavor, but Nye did prove in an interview this week that he possesses a knack for bizarre turns of phrase that might come in handy in a major administrative post...
Keverian's last effort to muscle a proposal through the House proved fruitless. In December, Keverian asked several of his committee chairs to resign if they could not support his November tax plant. But the speaker backed away from the threat when it became apparent that he did not have the votes to pass the bill anyway...