President Clinton's hapless efforts to prevent Puerto Rican displeasure at the U.S. military's use of the vital Vieques live-fire training range from harming the campaigns being waged by his wife and Vice President Gore is giving rise to the worst of both worlds: Navy and Marine battle groups unprepared for combat operations and increasingly expensive bribes for unappeasable separatists.
Mr. Ives's hapless characters are all trying to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, usually in the most circuitous of ways.
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Mr Hague's personal ratings have plumbed depths not seen since Michael Foot's hapless leadership of Labour in the 1980s.
Coke stock has slid sideways in the hands of Goizueta's hapless successors--first, Douglas Ivester, who lasted all of 26 months, now Douglas Daft.
Whereas Mr Cunningham's hapless predecessor, David Clark, was an isolated figure in government, Mr Cunningham has worked hard to win his colleagues over.
The company's hapless employees saw their pensions go up in smoke.
Tony Hayward, the company's hapless chief executive, turned over day-to-day leadership of the clean-up effort to Robert Dudley, who used to head BP's operations in Russia.
Should the group accede to international demands that it accept Israel, renounce violence, adhere to the Palestinians' previous peace deals, and so win a reprieve for Gaza's hapless people?
Sharapova was supposed to have played one of Bradbury's hapless opponents, but according to the commentary on the DVD of the film, she was considered too much of a likeness to Dunst and did not get the part.
This focus on the reformers ought not to mean abandoning the citizens of Africa's truly hapless countries.
He recently finished military service himself (raising eyebrows in Russia, where conscription is only for the hapless: Mr Ilves's father is Estonia's president).
There is even a special unit to chase hapless migrants through the city's storm drains.
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In Milwaukee, pupils in voucher schools scored 11 percentage points more in mathematics than their hapless contemporaries in the city's public schools.
Less than 60 seconds later, however, Everton went up field, Tim Cahill's neat back-flick found Yakubu and the former Middlesbrough striker's curling shot beat the hapless Hakon Opdal.
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Although the reasons behind that--high gas prices and a bad economy--are negative, it's good news for the hapless drivers who have to fight their way through the Cross Bronx Expressway.
Hans Blix , the hapless Swedish diplomat chosen by Saddam's friends on the Security Council to run the search for chemical and biological weapons and their delivery systems is demonstrating why he was tapped for the job.
Marco Rossi doubled the lead in the 53rd minute, passing the ball through Castellazzi's legs after evading the hapless Ziegler, who gave away his second penalty of the night in the 75th minute for a foul on Sokratis Papastathopoulos.
Even the hapless Dan Quayle, George Bush senior's sidekick, had served in the House and Senate for 12 years.
Hapless taxpayers will be forced to fund Suleman's shocking decision regardless of their beliefs.
Rather than keeping its eye on Teheran, it swallowed Hizbullah's bait and waged a war against hapless Lebanon while leaving Iran and its Syrian toady immune from attack.
Pairs of hapless hacks are judged by the past week's work: if you show enough plagiarism, exaggeration, sloppy logic and bias you advance into the next round (your correspondent did not make it to the final, thank goodness).
Bath's cause was not helped by some hapless goalkicking, with Ryan Davis, who took on the kicking duties in the absence of Butch James and Olly Barkley, setting the tone for an error-strewn display with two early penalty misses.
The onstage climax is a hoot -- that's when the star deals directly with her hapless, bewildered rival.
There's little fluidity up front, with Sturridge and the hapless Torres often appearing like they're playing by themselves.
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With no-one around him, Wilson's attempt to cut out Patrice Evra's cross ended with him sending a rasping volley past the hapless James.
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The NBA 's Los Angeles Lakers , for example, annually obviate their younger and hapless crosstown rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers .
His replacement Michael Owen's off-target header rebounded into the net off the body of hapless center-back Zat Knight in just the fifth minute, and summer signing Antonio Valencia scored his first goal for the club just after half an hour.
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