Following several months of fruitless attempts to track him down, he was arrested on Wednesday evening at the Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton-Johannesburg following a tip-off.

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After fruitless attempts to make contact with chief executive of the band's record label Apple, Neil Aspinall, the family decided to auction the tape at Christies in London.

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After weeks of fruitless attempts to raise the lander by radio, JPL mission controllers appeared resigned to their second major failure on a Mars mission in three months, following the September loss of the Mars Climate Observer.

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Dixon says this has been devastating to the teacher's job search and that attempts to have the minutes taken down have so far been fruitless.

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But repeated attempts to get Apple to offer the software at its app store have been fruitless.

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