They still offer too many models in a futile attempt to be all things to all consumers.
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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.
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.
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.
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Japan maintained bargain-basement rates in a futile attempt at stimulus.
Yet the progressive economic policy-making coming out of Washington today rests on the futile attempt to escape the corporate cycle of life that lies at the heart of capitalism.
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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.
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Earlier this week, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and their business partner Divya Narenda announced that they were giving up on their futile attempt to get the Supreme Court to settle their settlement feud with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
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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.
Would it have been so naive and futile to attempt to contain the risks of banking by forcing banks to become simpler, easier-to-understand institutions?
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.
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.
Attempt after spirited attempt had proved futile.
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This is why the accidental genius of Charles Dickens is to have made, of Ebenezer Scrooge, the only character in the story who has any personality to him and the one whose stoic attempt at a futile resistance is invoked under the breath more than most people care to admit.
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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.
Professor Higginbotham, who since, sadly, I must relate, has passed away since his appearance then -- was trying to show how futile it was for us to even attempt to append perjury to indictable, prosecutable offense, that nowhere in the country is it prosecuted regularly, and it's so trivial, because it's based on sex.
Such an attempt has the virtue of being futile and hence ensuring constant employment for those who teach and write about macroeconomics.
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The video game industry has defended the use of gun violence in its games, saying that any attempt to regulate digital media was futile.
Second, any attempt at such a consensus of opinion is futile.
But most analysts think any attempt to stamp out the business completely would prove futile.
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