Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonetheless allowed State Department spokesmen to release a trumped-up cover story that the U-2 was merely on a weather-scouting flight. He did not tell his press officers the real truth until after Nikita Khrushchev announced that Pilot Francis Powers had been taken alive. Caught mouthing a useless lie, State was roundly scored for the gaff...
...many railroaders have failed to move with the times, so have public attitudes toward the railroads. Despite dwindling railroad profits, the powerful rail unions insist on preserving many work rules that date back to 1919, still keep some 35,000 useless firemen riding modern diesels. All told, the railroads estimate, union featherbedding costs them $500 million a year. Similarly, state and local governments continue to tax railroad property an average 9% of assessed valuation v. 3% to 4% for other property. Compared with competing means of transportation, the railroads claim to be overtaxed by $140 million a year...
Even when the goods are available, they are usually so shoddily made as to be almost useless. Two enormous hangars in the Johannestal airport are crammed with $75 million worth of textile products that nobody at home or abroad will buy. (After Ghana and Guinea turned them down, the East Germans tried to fob them off on Communist Hungary-which indignantly returned the whole lot.) The state-owned shoe industry was recently forced to burn 25,000 pairs of sandals that were unmarketable...
...Hussey Jr., dean of Georgetown University's School of Medicine and chairman of the A.M.A.'s board of trustees. Said Dr. Hussey: "Efficacy" is beyond the FDA's power to judge because it is a misleading term. A drug that works for one patient may be useless for another with what appears to be the same illness, and only the individual physician treating the individual patient can determine efficacy in each case. Dr. Hussey argued further: "The marketing of a relatively useless drug is infinitely less serious than would be arbitrary exclusion from the market...
...went along with the professors. In post-election analysis, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, decided that Herbert Hoover ought to resign before March 4--as so many people were urging--since "Roosevelt could not get a new Congress with which to work, and therefore it would be useless." The CRIMSON had already decided that it made little difference to the country who was elected; the Advocate, too, commenting on the small turnout in the straw vote, grumbled that "the whole political machinery of our government is run by people who are either so corrupt or so inefficient that...