Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Useless to resist. It is everywhere. On T shirts, umbrellas, potholders, even nightgowns, Puzzles, Piggy banks. At Harvard, where they had a General Hospital weekend. It is a campus craze, a teen-age fad, a licensing bonanza and the top-rated soap on the tube, leaving All My Children and One Life to Live in the dust. Some 12 million people watch it every afternoon (3 to 4 p.m. E.S.T.). Have laid in provisions, disconnected phone. Must watch General Hospital...
...changes so quickly it's impossible to predict," he observes. "I used to use notebooks and refer to them, but they're useless. For this job you've got to be here...
...commercials rankle many consumer activists. Says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television: "The four-year-olds are going to be taught that it's appropriate for them to wear makeup. It's another way to get children to spend money on something useless and unnecessary...
...that he will have the opportunity to exercise that power again. Whether or not Reagan is able to shape "his" court is as problematical as it was for most of his predecessors. What is important is that he had the imagination and good sense to break down a useless discriminatory barrier by naming a woman to the nation's Supreme Court-at last. America waits to see what place in legal history will be carved out by this daunting daughter of Arizona pioneers. -By EdMagnuson. Reported by Joseph J. Kane/Phoenix and Evan Thomas/Washington
Finding such deals can be difficult. Fares change so quickly that the Official Airline Guide, once the bible of the industry, has become useless for looking up rates. "It's embarrassing," says New York Travel Agent Helen Pomeroy. "Sometimes our business travelers tell us about new fares before we hear about them ourselves...