Given that most stock options in new start-up companies are never worth anything, this would seem a fool's errand.

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But bringing them down close to zero, in government or in any other sphere, will remain a fool's errand.

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What they told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranged from tentative support for the plan to calling it a fool's errand.

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"I think it's a fool's errand to think that regulators are going to be ahead of, you know, bankers, especially in these highly complex organizations, " said Sen.

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Predicting new-energy technological breakthroughs tends to be a fool's errand.

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Is the small car market a fool's errand?

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