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...this way the song will not have been sung in vain...
...stores-complained of constant increases in the cost of milk, meat and vegetables. While they suffered, the nation's remaining 10% prospered. The rich grew richer under President Anwar Sadat, who returned property sequestered by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser and made private investment easier in a vain attempt to persuade upper-class Egyptians to put their money into productive enterprises rather than real estate, which provides better returns...
...assist by Reilly as Wald was screened by several players in front of the Harvard net and could not reach the elusive puck. The J.V. attempted to tie the game as a King went to the penalty box but their frenzied attack and rapid shots were in vain as the winners cleared the puck and the game ended...
Envisions bliss renewed (O world of vain...
...early as 1789, John Adams delivered an apologia for the imperial presidency to which some Americans might subscribe even today. Wrote Adams in a letter to President George Washington: "If the state and pomp essential to this great [office] are not, in good degree, preserved, it will be in vain for America to hope for consideration with foreign powers." Now, 37 Presidents later, the "state and pomp" of the presidency have come to include everything from the elegant Air Force One to the presidential seal emblazoned on ashtrays, cowboy boots and cufflinks...