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Strong cases languished in bureaucratic limbo while families of applicants pleaded in vain.

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For the next three years of his administration, the Democratic president and his aides pointed to economic indicators and data in vain, as the public's mood remained dark.

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Back then, I was pretty vain, and we would do this push-up routine before I went onstage so I’d look jacked.

When I was younger, bald men were often the butt of jokes - but taking steps to regain lost hair seemed to be viewed as effeminate and vain.

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"Everything she fought for was not in vain," she added, noting that she "broke down" when she heard the news at work.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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