Word: useless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both sides were digging in stubbornly. Top-level negotiations were suspended after the workers said they would not go back to the conference table until the government produced firm proposals for free trade unions. To wrangle over other issues before then, they insisted, would be useless. Nevertheless, behind the two façades of public bluster, closed-door talks continued between teams of technical and legal experts...
...last week the Security Council, by a vote of 14 to 0 with the U.S. abstaining, approved a much revised resolution condemning Israel for seeking to change the status of the Holy City. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, explaining the American abstention, chided the U.N. for making "useless pronouncements" and said: "We are absolutely and firmly committed to the success of the process begun at Camp David and its ultimate goal of a just and lasting peace throughout the region...
...Tekere scathingly dismissed two top Anglican churchmen-one of whom had spoken against the shooting down of an Air Rhodesia airliner by guerrillas last year-as meddlers who "have no place with us." Even in public, he never hesitated to call his old tribal and personal antagonist Joshua Nkomo "useless and redundant...
Then, descend on Harvard Square to open a checking account. Try the NOW account option. Find out what NOW stands for, in the never ending pursuit of useless knowledge. Buy a frisbee and four Harvard t-shirts at the Coop. Purchase lunch at Elsies, (where John F. Kennedy '40 used to eat--you have a heritage to live up to now) and take it back to the steps of Widener, where you can eat your first meal at Harvard by flouting the rule that it's gauche to be reverent...
...really suspenseful, violent scenes, three are built into dreams, occurring only in a character's mind but presented in such a way--with a tight, dramatic progression of details--that you can't know they're dreams until each sequence is played out. Which only goes to show how useless the story is, how DePalma has to step outside his plot, outside the plausible development of events, to deliver the goods...