Word: fruitlessly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rush to beat the major snowstorm bearing down on Washington. Having agreed terms with the leaders of the U.S., China, India, Brazil and South Africa - the major carbon emitters of today and, even more importantly, of tomorrow - the President would have seemed to have brought two weeks of often fruitless negotiations, including at least one all-nighter, to a successful conclusion. Instead, Obama's announcement marked the beginning of the all-nighter that never ended. (See TIME's complete coverage of the Copenhagen climate change conference...
...their historic achievement, but they knew as well as anyone that it was far too early to really celebrate. Obama's speech, after all, was strikingly partisan, lambasting the GOP for doing nothing more than "saying no, stopping progress, gumming up the works." That change in tone from his fruitless attempts at outreach 10 months before in the run-up to the stimulus vote made it clear that Democrats are now resigned to going it alone both in the House and the Senate. Majority leader Harry Reid has moved away from the lone Republican still negotiating on health care, Maine...
Abbas is deeply frustrated over how little help he's getting from the Americans and Israelis in making the case for negotiations to his people. Having been politically humiliated by years of fruitless open-ended talks at the Americans' behest, he has begun to say no to the U.S. pressure to return to the table, mindful of how much trouble he often finds himself in at home when following Washington's advice. His popularity has been in steep decline over the past month, after he initially bowed to U.S. pressure to shelve U.N. discussion of the Goldstone report into alleged...
Many will still wonder if Dylan is kidding--and that's as engaging and fruitless a question as whether a Coen brothers movie is a parable or a joke. (Those Jewish kids from Minnesota ...) But for an artist whose motives always keep his fans guessing, Dylan seems on the level here. When he warbles, "Have yourself a merry little Christmas now," he pitches it with a sincerity that could warm Scrooge's heart...
...other, private sources. I am four months pregnant and have asthma. My medical providers had highly urged it but didn't have the vaccine and could not say when they would receive their supply. Private hospitals and clinics I called directed me back to my doctors and so the fruitless search continued. A few hours' wait in 90°F heat seemed like a sacrifice worth making. Bryan Song and his wife Alice had been in line since 6:30 a.m. with their 13-month-old son Payton. "He's in day care and there have already been three cases...