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...panel feels the U.S. is regularly getting a raw deal, it could formally recommend withdrawal from the treaty. The efforts of Dole and some Republican strategists to link approval of GATT to a cut in the capital-gains tax -- a perennial on the G.O.P.'s wish list -- came to naught. Legislation putting GATT into effect will be voted on this week at a special lame-duck session of Congress...
However, it was all for naught. The loss wasn't the fault of the offense, or the defense, or Albers. It was a mix of the three, with some bad luck thrown...
...these efforts would be for naught; Columbia scored two runs in the seventh inning to lock...
...efforts seemed about to come to naught when the departing Eichmann ordered the Budapest ghetto sealed and every Jew inside killed. As the tanks and machine guns encircled the neighborhood, Wallenberg charged into Nazi headquarters and assured every officer there that he would personally see then hanged for war crimes when the Allies took the city...
Nearer my death to thee: Cruising in the closecomfort of a prop jet into the lights of Quebecfor a bilingual spring break, FM thought all thoseyears of French had come to naught. We could havesworn we heard the pilot use the words"bombe" and "une evacuation" as we circledthe city. Silly us, we thought, those Canadiansare too busy trying to keep warm in late March toworry about bombing airports. The pilot'scharmingly accented anglais told usotherwise...