Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rampant family instability: the unemployment rate among black men (16%) is nearly three times as high as among white men, and black family incomes are, on the average, 56% of white family incomes. It is hard to keep any family together under such financial pressures. Fathers, feeling defeated and useless, drift away. "The strong growth in female-headed households," says Norton, a law professor at Georgetown University, "is the central problem in black families and why poverty is so lasting." Teen-age mothers too often produce children who become teen-age mothers. Says John Bayne, a Washington social services official...
This paradox, he argues, is the source of a "splintering of styles"-the varied voices poets adopt when addressing the self and their own subjectivity. It is also the source of the critic's problems with judging poetry. Generalizations often prove useless or silly when applied to specific poets. Instead of glib categories, critics should produce analyses of the problems unique to the new poetry and assessments of poets as poets, rather than as representatives of their not-yet-defined generation...
...issues the college has already addressed, according to Clark, is academic advising for athletes. He said that the college's previous provision of one part-time advisor for 200 to 300 athletes was "useless...
...capital of San Salvador. The blackout began as election commissioners were handing out numbered ballots and ballot boxes for distribution to the local polling stations. Many officials simply left for the polls without their election materials. When delivered ballots failed to match up with local voting lists, both became useless. To top off the confusion, the election commission had delayed explaining the balloting system to voters until 72 hours before election...
...March 4, for instance, when the Council finally considered and approved its entire $77,000 budget, fewer that half of the members remained to approve it. Had a quorum been called for then, weeks of intensive work by an entire committee would have been rendered useless and 24 student organizations would not have been able to proceed with worthy projects funded with the money of undergraduates...