Word: useless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Establishment scorn heaped on Reagan's proposal for antiballistic missile defense could easily a mountain range. A year after Reagan proposed the Star Wars concept, the New York Times derided the system in any form as patently useless: "Since even minor holes in any defense would risk millions of deaths, no system is worth having unless it works almost perfectly. And since it could never be fully tested, perfection is unattainable...
...approved by Thatcher advisers, in which Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month compared the Star Wars program with France's Maginot Line, the vast defensive wall designed before World War II as a means of protecting France against a German invasion; when the test came, the line proved useless. Howe also raised questions about the effect of Star Wars on the Western alliance's policy of nuclear deterrence and the possibility that a project of such magnitude could set off a new and vastly larger arms race...
...Levins Laboratory is located. Though security reasons could be cited, the withholding of such information could introduce an error of several hundred feet in the Advisory Committee's estimate of the range of toxic effects from a leak or explosion, and consequently, make the already highly uncertain assessment practically useless...
Divestiture is not an exercise in moral hand-wringing, an effort to isolate ourselves from events in South Africa. We believe it is absurd and useless to argue that we can ever be morally pure, because everything in which we invest, everything we buy, and every place we spend our money is somehow connected to a venture or an idea we find morally repugnant. Of those who continue to charge us with trying to wash our hands of apartheid through divestment we ask, why divest from Baker? Why not invest only in South Africa-related companies so we can have...
...summit of the terpsichorean mount. That's Dancing, through various approaches, reveals the slopes to be full of unusual treasures. The brisk journey drags in only a few spots. Dancers, like athletes, often move better than they speak, and the introductions they offer to the five sections are generally useless...