Word: fruitlessness
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...seems fruitless, however, a scenario of communication rather than any authentic engagement on the issues, to talk about who can say what as if it weren't ultimately a question of Power--of whether my guys can make your guys do what I want. The confrontation between HRBSA and the "Lampoon" is not only, is hardly at all, an abstract contention over Constitutional Prerogatives...
...Fruitless Overtures. As with his earlier acquisition efforts, Gray's attempt to swallow up Babcock & Wilcox has not left his target's management cheering. The tender-offer announcement, which caught Wall Street by surprise, followed weeks of fruitless overtures by Gray to B&W's chairman, George Zipf. Last week, after Gray had finally managed to see Zipf twice to no avail, he rocketed off what amounted to an ultimatum, telling Zipf that he had until week's end to declare whether B & W would fight the offer. Zipfs reply was both immediate and curt...
...secular leader, he studied Buddhism, Hinduism and Christian theology and regarded himself as a mystic. Shortly before his death, in fact, Jumblatt had been planning a trip to a monastery in the Himalayas for "spiritual exercises." He had last gone there -for the same purpose-before beginning the final fruitless struggle to reform his country...
...course of it, Hine traversed America, disguising himself and employing all sorts of subterfuges (his friends remembered him as a consummate role player) to get his camera into the factories, mills and mines where children worked. "I have seen their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game, where the odds are all against them," he wrote later. The veracity with which his lens recorded the pinched, pale, grimy faces of breaker boys in a Pennsylvania coal mine, or the raw-fingered, oyster-shucking children of New England, or the wan cotton-mill...
...cooling it. Minnesota Congressman Donald Fraser, who chairs the congressional ad hoc human rights group, believes that in the long run the rights issue will have to be dealt with on a "quieter level." He urges a distinction between "trying to influence other countries, [which will mean] some fruitless endeavor and may get us in all sorts of trouble," and being "just prepared to say where we stand." Carter referred to the difficult balancing act between these two positions during a courtesy call at the Department of State. Said he: "I've got to be careful not to make...