Word: vaines
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...runs Counterintelligence in the U.S., monitoring the activities of some 1,600 Communist agents; the CIA's work is limited to operations abroad. In J. Edgar Hoover's day, counterespionage was hampered by a lack of cooperation between the FBI and the CIA. "Hoover was difficult and vain," says one former top CIA official. "He thought he could run things by himself...
...resuscitate him. We believe that Lieut. Colonel Villaneuva's memory would be best served by constructively appraising the shortcomings and strengths of the Philippine military so that we can undertake meaningful reforms. That way, his death and those of multitudes of soldiers before him will not have been in vain. Jose Angel A. Honrado Brigadier General Armed Forces of the Philippines Quezon City, the Philippines...
Unfortunately, all preparations proved in vain as the Badgers took the crown securely with a time of 6:35.00 while the Tigers grabbed second in 6:39.70. The Black and White again found itself in third place, finishing...
Facing a potential judgment in excess of $100 million, Harvard’s star economist Andrei Shleifer ’82 has tried in vain to limit his liability in the U.S. government’s ongoing fraud suit against...
...election—held during reading period, at an inconvenient time of day—I lost to Capp by a vote of 22-20. I am not so vain to think that all those 20 votes were cast because of some characteristic I possess; surely some were protests against the duplicitous actions of the current administration. But I am just as certain that numerous votes were cast for Capp simply so that there would be someone—anyone—serving as vice president over the summer...