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Consider the fruitless decades-long effort to produce an AIDS vaccine in primates, the failure to produce even a single case of human AIDS in any primate studied, or the failure to identify even one useful AIDS drug from primate studies.
The Job Training Partnership Act, a decades-long federal program, appears to be almost entirely futile.
“Freedom” was our rallying cry in the decades-long battle against the political enemy that Ronald Reagan labeled the “evil empire.”
Granted, this is a smart, provocative movie, with a performance from Oliver Platt that is truly off-tha-hook, a film reflective of Beatty's decades-long concerns over the corruption of government by money.
Confessing a decades-long pattern of discrimination against female faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is taking measures to cure itself.