Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cannot separate Reagan's economic proposals from his cold-war posturing. The aid he offers is merely a rhetorically; generous disguise for his primarily military approach to the region's problems. Based on faulty economics and a selective reading of history, the President's economic initiatives are worse than useless to our southern neighbors as they struggle to overcome their poverty...
...been in exile since fleeing Iran last summer with former President Abolhassan Banisadr, Rajavi acknowledged that the Mujahedin had suffered a damaging blow. But he vowed that "the battle for freedom and democracy will continue." He denied government reports of other shootouts with the Mujahedin, saying they were "useless psychological warfare." He also said he had appointed a new commander in chief, but did not divulge his name. Mujahedin sources said, however, that the new chief gave his first order the day after Khiabani's death. "Take no rash retaliatory action," he told his cadres. "This is a revolution...
...make political discourse more than one big useless, contradictory comparison of King's and Dukakis' terms in office, Massachusetts needs a third candidate. Tom O'Neill won't have the opportunity to move into the governor's mansion next year. But when he comes home to North Cambridge after a real campaign on the issues, his family can feel a little better about what he has done...
...life would be drab otherwise. Were the puzzle not useless enough, the craze has spawned several books which, as they compete for space on the best-seller list with dead felines, make impoverished math graduate students rich. For all the collectors of bottomless ashtrays, Rubik's Cubes now come in monocolored and multicolored, but two faced, models, neither of which encloses a solution. The success of ideal Toy Corporation resembles, that of the Grot Company, a creation of British television Grot sells only useless things. After the sales of Rubik's Cube and its various geometrically precise successors decline, American...
...that he had thought Adan was about to attack him with a knife. "It was a tragic misunderstanding," said Abbott, covering his eyes with a hand. From a front row of seats, Henry Howard, Adan's father-in-law, shouted: "You intended it, you scum! You scum, you useless piece of s---. You and Mailer and all the [other] creeps." The standing-room-only audience burst into applause, and court officials hustled Howard out of the courtroom. Fisher asked Judge Irving Lang to declare a mistrial. Lang promised a ruling Monday...