Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexico's attitude toward the entire phenomenon of undocumented migration to the U.S. is very contradictory. Whatever the U.S. does is unacceptable and useless. Those are contradictory statements, but we have an ambivalent and contradictory attitude. There is an obvious element of humiliation in the fact that we are not able to provide jobs for our own people. The only way many Mexicans can find a decent job is to go to the U.S. On the other hand, it's a fact that we feel we have a certain right to do that, because nobody is forcing American employers...
WASHINGTON--A House committee yesterday approved a flag protection bill that was pushed by Democrats but dismissed by Republicans as useless for overcoming the Supreme Court ruling permitting flag burning...
...bill is essentially useless," said Rep. Carlos Moorhead (R-Calif.), who said Republicans would vote for it in committee only as in symbolic support of the flag...
Inflation last year skyrocketed to 36,000%. The national currency, the cordoba, is virtually useless; some merchants just price their goods in dollars. Public transportation barely exists. In Managua or along country roads, knots of people wait for buses that may come in an hour, a day, or, if the driver cannot find gasoline...
...hesitation is useless," it said. "Surrendering, thoroughly confessing [and] doing meritorious work...is the only way out for all criminals...