Word: uselessness
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...front, which would quickly wear out as they cut a hole six yards high and eight yards wide into the mountain. These had to be constantly replaced. Stop the supply of spare bits, the CIA men told Kohl's advisers, and the boring machines would soon become useless. Embarrassed by revelations in 1988 that German companies had helped equip the original Rabta plant, Kohl quickly ordered Westfalia-Becorit to shut down the spare-parts pipeline...
...unemployment and no established political institutions. To rebuild the economy, Drummond reports, Preval is attempting to secure aid from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, hoping to attract manufacturing and assembly industries to employ low-skilled workers. With a crumbled infrastructure -- the capital has decrepit roads, nearly useless phones and spotty electrical service -- and a police force best prepared to direct traffic, securing credit will be difficult. Though violence continues across the country, there is a twinkle of hope: After losing the business years ago, Haiti once again is making baseballs...
...predictions and statistics are useless. The Beanpot possesses a unique emotional template for the players and fans, which in turn creates one of the most thrilling tournaments in hockey. This excitement has even trickled into the national sports arena, as it is being aired on ESPN2 and Channel 68 locally...
...colors as they rotate into and out of view. And spectrometers are subject to all sorts of errors that come from changes in temperature and electronic glitches. Thus, Marcy and Butler had to run their observations through a sophisticated computer program they'd written to sort useful from useless information--a piece of software so complex and so demanding of computer time that their colleagues kidded them that it would never work...
...Vietnam became the manifestation of George Kennan's containment doctrine, so has Bosnia become the symbol of America's ambivalent role as the global superpower. If not with Vietnam, then similar comparisons are provided by the military disaster in Somalia, one whose hazy military objective resulted in the useless sacrifice of American lives...