Word: fruitlessness
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Blocking currency movements with regulations tends to be as fruitless as trying to control water with a rake. Trade has been severely stymied. "There is no practical way to handle transactions with Mexico," says Mark Miles of the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. "If we got a check from a Mexican, there is nothing we could do with it. And what do we do with pesos?" Says Doug Fuller, a Southern California Ford dealer: "It's kind of a catch-22. They can't get dollars and we can't take pesos...
Sophomore midfielder Inga Larson put in the ensuing penalty kick to knot the score at 1-1 Regulation time expired with yet another fruitless Crimson flurry in front...
...battle, he moves peripatetically among his soldiers and civilians, escorting Western visitors around Baghdad to convince them that he enjoys the full support of his people. He clearly does, despite the increasingly disastrous consequences of the war. Some 100,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in a fruitless bid to seize control of the Shatt al Arab waterway and Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. Yet most Iraqis despise Khomeini's brand of Islamic fanaticism and prefer the secular nature of Saddam Hussein's government. Saddam Hussein's downfall would also provoke grave apprehensions...
...reveals the intimate details of his teen-age sexual fantisties and experimentation, he speaks candidly about his relationship with his father, and he invites his readers to examine the intricacies of his two marriages and one divorce. The discussion is as scientifically fruitless as the rest of Bell's case studies, but it has the advantage of immediacy, and thus has far more substantial emotional impact. Here is the former football star struggling to understand his wife's demands to share in child care and housework; here is the aspiring professor putting aside his own career goals to enable...
...practiced by its originator in Geneva, was the "preeminent social religion, and I've become more socially conscious from my reading of Calvin," he insists. "Pure social action is useful, and it gets a lot done. But without religion, speaking in eternal or ultimate terms, it will prove fruitless. Because the world is at last...