Word: fruitlessness
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...Prince came and went without a hitch, but two bomb scares several hours after his 10 a.m. Foundation Day convocation sent officers scurrying in a fruitless search of the Harvard Square MBTA stop. Police were unsure whether the scares were related to Prince Charles's visit, but they were apparently not directed at the Prince himself, said Cambridge Police Detective Richard Gardiner...
...blow, when it finally fell, was unexpectedly jarring. Despite years of agonized Western debate about combatting terrorism, months of mostly fruitless diplomatic maneuvering, weeks of U.S. warnings and finally days of ominous public silence, the world still seemed unprepared when the bombers struck. Although Libya had felt the sting of the Sixth Fleet over the Gulf of Sidra just three weeks before, the principal buildings and the minarets of the central mosque in Tripoli were bathed by floodlights, providing a beacon for U.S. pilots. Under cover of darkness, 13 F-111 fighter-bombers flying out of Britain, joined by twelve...
...addition to promoting greater inter-religious harmony, the new Disneyland would provide badly needed jobs for an economically depressed area. Poor beggars like Muammar Khaddafy would no longer have to idle away their time in fruitless militarism. Instead, he could get a job dressing up as Donald Duck or running a concession stand selling snap-on Mickey ears for yamulkas...
...NUNN'S EFFORTS would be entirely fruitless, however, were it not for the expertise and finesse Helena Bonham Carter in providing Jane with a credible range of emotions to complement the metamorphoses undergone by her character as she progresses from shy, introverted, young scholar to innocent bride to the ruler of England. The catalyst which triggers this series of changes is her growing love for Guilford and her subsequent initiation into womanhood. Even taking into account the self-imposed constraints of cinematic exposition, Jane's blossoming into adulthood occurs far too quickly; on her wedding night, we see her reading...
This way of gathering information provedineffective because "few of the companies made anymention of social responsibility in the materialthey provided to OCS and even fewer bothered torespond to our request for information. Telephonecalls to the companies that did not respond provedequally fruitless," the leaflet states...