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...Breed. Mechanization has increased medical instrumentation sales to an estimated $300 million this year, compared with two-thirds that amount in 1964. But the fantastic growth has not been without its problems. "A lot of these machines are relatively useless," complains Dr. John Knowles, director of Massachusetts General Hospital. "And they are pushing up costs astronomically, because people are beginning to feel they have to step into a machine to get the best treatment." Taking the opposite view, Robert Allen, editor of the Journal of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, argues that "doctors simply...
...advising system is "almost useless" as it is now organized. It should be integrated with the new House tutorial so that students can meet their advisors more easily and informally -- for example, at dinner...
...some extent, the impasse remains. The defense has a choice: unless it agrees to a reciprocal trade of information, the new rules leave the prosecutor's relatively limited discovery rights almost useless. Yet some defense disclosures cannot be compelled without violating a defendant's privilege against selfincrimination. All of which may still leave a trial less of a search for truth than a game of give-and-take among lawyers...
...delighted to have a man around the house, mistakes insult for interest. But after Adolfo gratuitously sneers at her friends ("I'm a cut above the lot of you") and falls down drunk in her backyard, Pina's patience runs out, and she tells him what a useless mess...
...principle the SNCC reasoning goes deeper than the rousing words used at rallies. The injustices perpetrated on the Negro by the white man over the centuries are used as a acapegoat to solidify "Black Power." Power is the only thing white America understands, Carmichael preaches, thus it is useless to attempt to improve your condition without power...