Word: useless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brother, want the land there for their own use, but they don't have a strong rational basis for forcing Harvard to maintain it. If my father were alive now, he would sympathize with Harvard," he said, referring to what he called his father's belief Black Rock was useless to the University...
...recent interview, President Bok said that monitoring investments in the Soviet Union would be useless compared with actions aimed at improving the ways companies deal with Blacks in South Africa...
...professional life. "That is a difficult age for an actress," she recalled in an interview in 1978. "It means that when she is still pretty good-looking, she must decide that interesting parts are going to be on the other side of the line and that it is useless to hang on to those branches of youth...
...real policemen know that they rarely get good prints from a handgun and that any they do find are often useless. Fingerprints can prove that a particular suspect was at the scene of a crime, but when investigators have only prints and no suspect, the odds of finding a match are greatly reduced. Los Angeles police estimate that it would have taken a single expert searching manually through the city's 1.7 million print cards 67 years to come up with Richard Ramirez's prints. "Frankly speaking," says Commander Bill Rathburn, "most of the dusting for prints...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard had five corner kicks, Cornell four... The Big Red committed 12 fouls, to only nine by the Crimson...Kenworthy wore white tennis shoes during the contest. Appearantly, the Harvard captain didn't own a pair of turf shoes, and, as regular cleats would have been useless on the phony turf, had to where the sneakers. The conditions at Schoellkopf Field were described by one observer as "sub-Arctic...