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Lightweight coach John Higginson, in an often bizarre speech, said it is a "useless pastime" to talk about the up-coming year...
...Arab countries. Common sense indicates that you can also reduce gasoline consumption by making cars run more efficiently. Why not reduce clean-air standards to a reasonable level (as in 1971) and enjoy a 20% fuel savings without adding to inflation, creating more governmental bureaucracy or starting a useless...
Iron Will. Associates remember that in 1949, when his horse fell on him, crushing 23 of his 24 ribs, Douglas was undaunted: he was back on the bench six months later. In childhood he confounded doctors' expectations that his polio-stricken legs would forever be useless. In addition, Douglas knows that a Ford-nominated successor might well tip the court into pronounced conservativism, a result that would seem a disaster to the old liberal...
...blame for the miserable record of economics journalism [Jan. 20] rests squarely on the shoulders of your intellectuals who "skillfully translate economic trends" into useless prose. The blame cannot be shifted to the shoulders of John Q. under the guise of public ignorance about economics...
...always helpful to have a real football player covering downfield after a kick," Walsh said, "rather than have a kicker who's useless after he's kicked the ball...