Word: vaines
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...ease the crisis, many Asians are looking to the U.S. 1973 crop-perhaps in vain. Spring flooding in the Mississippi Valley ravaged the rice fields. Planting was late, and yields may be low. The Nixon Administration has announced that exports of grains, including rice, may be curbed to keep domestic prices in line. If the U.S. will not export rice, Southeast Asians will have to look to their own resources, tighten their collective belts, and hope that better weather later this year will revive the "green revolution" that was to solve their chronic food shortage...
...waiting was in vain. Neither the former Attorney General, who rarely shows emotion and seldom talks to the press at even the best of times, nor his once effervescent wife emerged. Their chief contact with the outside world was a former Hungarian freedom fighter who serves as their general aide-de camp and chauffeur. From time to time, he would run an errand or escort the Mitchells' daughter Marty to her private Catholic school...
...Brezhnev is not exactly a reluctant star. He does everything with gusto, exuding an earthiness and nervous energy that sometimes evoke comparisons with Lyndon Johnson. He is a natty dresser, tending to dark suits for day and blue suede jackets for informal wear. He can also be vain and demanding; he is the only Soviet leader to wear TV makeup. "He has a keen eye for that little red light on the TV camera," observes a U.S. official...
...life (TIME, Feb. 19). Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Helen Tausend had said that captivity may leave a P.O.W. "only the shell of a man," and Yale Psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton had suggested that the war's unpopularity would lead many prisoners to conclude that their suffering had been in vain. Something like this may have happened to Brudno. Like all suicides, Brudno's act must have had many causes, some predating the war. "There was no specific thing that caused his depression," says his brother Robert. But both he and his wife Deborah had changed in subtle ways...
...Bell & Howell, a Republican who now considers himself "neutral." In corporations as in Government, several officials note, executive assistants sometimes give orders in the chief's name without his knowledge -but if an assistant gets his superior in trouble by taking the boss's name in vain, he is booted out immediately, with no expressions of regret. Says a New York textile maker, who once discovered that an overzealous assistant was tapping other employees' telephones in an attempt to expose a thief: "I gave him 15 minutes to get the taps off-and then I fired...