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As Welsh's book has a list under PRONUNCIATION, I looked there, to no avail.
LSC's State Planning Initiative embraces a new vision15 for legal services in which eligible clients in every state would be afforded an equal opportunity to avail themselves of high-quality civil legal assistance.
The basic problem is that the editors did not seem able to make value judgments regarding the amount of space to be devoted to the entries: on the one hand we find acid house, chaos theory, and desktop publishing, none of them succinctly written, on the other, long, strung-out entries on Steffi Graff, Margaret Atwood, and Paul McCartney, and to what avail?
But time spent on the phone to the utilities commission and the attorney general's office was to no avail.
Oklahomans have prayed for divine intervention to no avail.