Word: useless
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...paranoid's fantasy, but then the friend drops a name--General George Marcus Delavane (read mad antagonist). This man Converse hates--Delavane sent him on a suicide mission in Vietnam that landed him in a Vietnamese concentration camp (read haunted past). Delavane sent thousands of kids to their useless deaths in Vietnam, and Converse would do anything to stop him from gaining power. But before the friend-source can give Converse more than a few leads, he is killed...
...observers reject the Sullivan principles as useless. Those who maintain that the principles have been effective in promoting some change fall generally into two groups. One group believes that the principles as they are presently applied have done all that can be expected of their limited purview. Further change, this group maintains, depends on a radical reformation of the principles and an expansion of their goals. The second group believes that further progress can be achieved in South Africa without changing the principles...
5.Elimination of the distinction between missles and long range missles. Because of the proximity of the Soviet Union and Western Europe, this distinction is useless. Any medium range Western missile based in Europe can hit western Soviet Union. The Pershing and Cruise missiles now being based in Western Europe can reach the Soviet Union in ten minutes. This offers the same type of security risk that the Cuban missiles posed to the United States. The Soviet Union's SS-20s are also a dangerous threat to NATO. Not to consider these missiles to affect the strategic balance is ridiculous...
...more likely cause was money, or the lack of it. Morocco has been beset by a series of economic setbacks in the past few years. A severe drought, now in its third year, has seriously impaired agricultural production and rendered useless hydroelectric projects in which the government had invested heavily. As a result, the country is relying on oil imports for 85% of its energy needs, and paying for them with a dollar that has gained more than 40% in value against the dirham since 1981. At the same time, prices on the world market for phosphate, Morocco...
PETITION DENIED. To Elizabeth Bouvia, 26, cerebral palsy victim who has fought for the right to starve herself to death in a hospital because she is tired of life in "a useless body"; by a California Supreme Court affirmation of earlier decisions to throw out her plea...