Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commercials' methods are as brutal as they are efficient. Instead of nets, which are useless against big game fish, the fishermen string out "long lines" -ropes or metal cables anywhere from two to 60 miles in length with baited hooks attached every twelve to 25 ft. The long lines are left in the water for 24 hours or more, supported by buoys and equipped with radar beacons to spot their location for the boat. Fish hooked on the long lines fight hopelessly against the miles-long cable until they drown or are mutilated by sharks. Off Baja California...
...Duty. Personalities and minor issues aside, the crucial debate in and around FDA centers on the question: How shall it discharge its duty to protect the public against useless or dangerous drugs? There can be no simple answer because the law, and therefore the duty, have changed almost as fast as drugs have changed...
...this antibiotic (Parke, Davis' Chloromycetin). It is unquestionably the best drug against half a dozen uncommon diseases and a few medical conditions that should be treated in hospitals. But it is often prescribed to avert the aftereffects of a common cold, for which it is useless and also dangerous, because it may cause death from anemia...
...stronghold in the brawling boom town of Calcutta. There were 50,000 regulars in the Nawab's army, and in the fort only 515 Europeans able to bear arms -such arms as were available. Thanks to Governor Roger Drake, a 34-year-old ineffectual, fifty cannon were rusted useless, and almost all the powder was too damp to burn...
While we realize that, if the College is in real financial distress, it would be useless to protest the raise in rates per cent, we feel that strong efforts ought to be made to improve some of the outstanding defects in present and future living conditions at Radcliffe. First, what specifically caused the change in room rates? Perhaps a cost efficiency analysis of Radcliffe's use of funds would show that the necessary money could be procured some other way, leaving off-campus living intact...