Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...useless to blindly embrace neoliberalism or to flat-out reject it, for, in fact, neoliberalism as a clearly-defined political creed does not yet exist. What exists is a mindset--apparently an attractive one--that, like Gary Hart, continually whispers "new, new, new, not old, not old" in your ear. What has yet to be determined is the clear-cut political agenda that will accompany the invocation of spiritual rebirth and political renewal...
...activists also fear that information about the test results will fall into the wrong hands. Some are recommending a boycott of the test unless confidentiality can be legally guaranteed. "Besides being clinically useless, this test is identifying," says Dr. Stephen Caiazza, president of New York Physicians for Human Rights. "It tells your employer, your insurance company or landlord that you are gay or a drug abuser...
...information in weeks or months would be useless," says Norbert H. Bartel, a research associate in the Harvard College Observatory, who studies supernovae-extremely shortlived phenomena...
...most of both feet. Leakey hopes to unearth those fragments next summer. The only other known near complete Homo erectus was discovered in 1975 by Leakey across Lake Turkana from the present dig. But that hominid had suffered from a degenerative bone disease, and therefore the find was useless as an archetype of the species...
Pummel your sword limp, useless...