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They still offer too many models in a futile attempt to be all things to all consumers.
WSJ: Business Asia: Changing Rules of the Road for China's Auto Industry
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Smith, the NBA's top sixth man, scored 19 points, most coming in a futile attempt to rally his team late.
WSJ: Pacers rout Knicks 93-82 to take 3-1 series lead
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But eventually they may go up as workers make a futile attempt to maintain their standard of living with dollars that are steadily losing value.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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If big growth is out of reach, do not destroy the value in a healthy mid-size company in a futile attempt to reach for the moon.
FORBES: How Impossible Dreams Can Destroy Value In Mid-Sized Firms
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Japan maintained bargain-basement rates in a futile attempt at stimulus.
FORBES: Keep An Eye On The Carry Trade As Rates Rise
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In a desperate and futile attempt to save the company, Skilling tried to inspire investor confidence by raising 200 million dollars, through pooling his money with funds from other top Enron executives.
NPR: Skilling Takes Stand, Proclaims Innocence at Enron Trial
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Wang, who has owned the team since 2000, announced in October that the Islanders were moving to Brooklyn after a futile, nine-year attempt to replace the Coliseum, the team felt a sense of relief.
WSJ: Counting Down the Days Til Brooklyn
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Meanwhile, a maverick Socialist member of parliament, Arnaud Montebourg, is gathering his colleagues' signatures in a surely futile, but nonetheless headline-grabbing attempt to change the constitution so that a sitting president can be made to answer questions from the magistrates.
ECONOMIST: Not for long in prison��but who will follow him?
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For this reason, it is considered futile to attempt cloud seeding during a dry season, when moisture in the atmosphere is scarcer.
FORBES: Venezuela: Recent Rain And Claims of Cloud Seeding
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Second, any attempt at such a consensus of opinion is futile.
NPR: Living in the Present Means Taking Focus off Past
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Bair was recognized for her early, though ultimately futile, attempt to get the Bush Administration to address the subprime-mortgage crisis before it became a threat to the entire economy.
NEWYORKER: The Contrarian