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These expectations, for purposes of brevity, can be summarized as follows: a delivery system in which eligible clients in every state are afforded an equal opportunity to avail themselves and ultimately to attain high-quality civil legal assistance.
In it, to no avail, Freeh explained why she should appoint an independent counsel to look into Clinton campaign fund-raising.
The Houston Chronicle reported that when Abraham showed up at the hospital after Selena's shooting, he said she wouldn't want a blood transfusion because of her faith (by that point, though, she'd already been given blood, to no avail).
Numerous other economists--and even the occasional columnist--have tried to debunk the myth, but to no avail.
Charles Peters made this very point in his "Tilting at Windmills" column in the Washington Monthly last May, but to no avail.