Word: hopelessness
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...Then just this year researchers at Sloan-Kettering showed that the drug could dramatically boost the effectiveness of standard colorectal-cancer chemotherapy, shrinking tumors in more than a fifth of otherwise hopeless cases. Says Sloan-Kettering's Saltz: "The fact that we got a 20% response rate is staggering." What is happening, he surmises, is that the growth-factor inhibitor weakens the tumor enough for chemotherapy to finish...
...however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable,” on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage...
...This is a hopeless interview because you've never watched even two seconds of Voyager. T-a-c-h-y-o-n. And I'm sure you know how to spell emissions...
...easy answer is that the Tories are even more hopeless. Blair is concerned that disappointment factor may keep many of his supporters away from the polls and create a low turnout. But remember, the Tories were in power for 18 years before Blair, and voters are inclined to recognize that he got the economy right. He says he's going to do tougher things in second term; the country is inclined to give him another chance. It's not going to be an exciting campaign - Blair appears to be trying to get voters excited about his sobriety...
...make sure you spend it indoors. In an attempt to get Web surfers salivating over summer's big-budget wannabe blockbusters, studios are pulling out all the stops to give you something to do online when the boss isn't looking. You can spend hours jousting with geeks as hopeless as you are, brush up on your history while you blow things up, and pour your heart out to a robot--with no price of admission...