Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chapters on Proverbs and Idioms are typically useless. They could be grouped into one category called Cliches, and the explanations provided are almost self-parodying. Here's a particularly helpful...
...dictionary seems to lack a viable purpose. The weighty volume is useless as a reference tool. You need to look up a term? Use Webster's. A geographical location? Try an atlas. An expression? Bartlett's is better...
...many people, such theories may seem useless, if not ridiculous. But to others, the ideas are brain teasers that both challenge and stretch the imagination. While thinking about wormholes has no immediate practical value, Guth insists that it helps scientists explore how flexible the laws of physics are. More important, the theories could shed light on some of the most fundamental questions of cosmology: how the universe began, how it works and how it might...
...look at Reagan's proposals a little bit closer, we see them for the useless rhetorical exercises they really are. In calling for parents to teach their children an "unambivalent appreciation of America," Reagan suggested today's youth ought to learn more about the American soldiers who bombed Tokyo and stormed the Normandy beaches...
...necessarily true. I am always looking for innovative people. In Viet Nam I was running the riverboat operation, and two kinds of people showed up. One asked for the tactical doctrine on how to operate those boats. When we said there wasn't any, he froze. That man was useless. Another type would say, "You mean nobody knows how to do this?", and "I know as much as anybody?" And when I said yes, he'd say, "Hot dog!" and go off and do it. That guy was great...