Word: useless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more to get them what they want." Immigrants desperately turn to non-lawyers too. Some Latins, including Mexicans, are used to retaining lawyers known as notarios to handle many legal matters at home. Notary publics in the U.S. sometimes take advantage of that confusion and charge fees for useless or misleading advice...
...paper, the paper is still sometimes wrong, often incomplete and always clumsy, and it takes three days to put files back . . . Sometimes the files can't be found; they've been misplaced in some bureaucratic limbo. And even if the paper system were improved (it) would still be wholly useless for answering larger questions . . . to create a basis for national immigration policies...
...Uninformed rabble-rousing" is useless, says an ally of Kilson, Kenneth D. Johnson '85, vice-president of the Seymour Society, a Black Christian group of which Kilson was one of the initial advisors. Instead, Blacks must work within the system: get a good education, enter the world of white elites, and then build up institutions and networks for Blacks (for instance, establishing chairs in the Afro-American Department or setting up Black scholarship funds...
...year was 1962. America was weathering its worst session since the Great Depression. Unemployment soared; interest rates fluctuated in the high double digits. The beleagured construction industry mailed piles of useless lumber to Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, and Capitol Hill clamored for the Fed chief's hide...
Spilled milk may be worth crying about in at least one instance: when the stuff happens to land on a floppy disk. These sensitive magnetic devices, which carry the software and data used in personal computers, can be rendered useless by a tiny amounts of errant dust or goo. When that happens, the user's work is lost. The problem inspired Polaroid, a new contender in the nearly $1 billion market for floppies, to make the bold claim last March that it could bring any of its damaged disks back to life for no charge. Last week the company boasted...