Word: fruitlessness
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Three times the jury deliberating the Iran-contra perjury trial of former CIA spy chief Clair George trooped into the courtroom to report an impasse, and three times Judge Royce Lamberth sent them back out to keep trying. Finally, after almost six days of fruitless deliberation, foreman Steven Kirk said his panel was totally deadlocked on all nine counts -- from perjury to giving false statements to Congress. "As a citizen," said Kirk, a Washington consultant, "I expect senior government officials like Clair George to be more forthcoming to Congress. As a juror, I felt compelled to give him the benefit...
...Balkan war has produced as many broken promises as broken bodies. Though the warring parties agreed to begin new talks next week in Geneva, some of those closest to the crisis are giving up hope. Britain's Lord Carrington, the European Community negotiator, resigned after a year of fruitless labor -- including more than 30 cease-fires, all broken. And George D. Kenney, a career diplomat who heads the State Department's Yugoslavia desk, resigned to protest America's failure to act decisively against Serbian "genocide." The London conference, he said, was "a charade...
...about the Ndoki three years ago, when Fay told me about this wondrous forest where gorillas, chimps and other animals do not run away at the sight of humans. At the time, I was researching an article on great apes, and I thought Fay was exaggerating. I had spent fruitless days trying to get glimpses of chimps and gorillas in forests just to the north of the Ndoki, and it was hard for me to imagine that Africa might still contain forests so remote that the animals had never learned to fear mankind. Western lowland gorillas, hunted for centuries...
Television's mindless, endless (generally fruitless) search for the dramatic image -- particularly on the worst night, Wednesday -- created the impression that an entire city was about to fall into anarchy and go up in flames. What was needed instead was geography lessons showing that rioting was confined to a relatively small portion of a vast metropolis and that violent incidents outside that area were random, not the beginning of a concentrated march to the sea via Rodeo Drive...
...past two weeks, efforts to secure big-name bands such as Squeeze, the Indigo Girls, Big Audio Dynamite and 10,000 Maniacs have proved fruitless...