Word: uselessness
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...seasoned veteran in my office said the other day that when she was hired in the early 1970s, many bosses thought that women her age were useless because they would just get married and have kids. Twenty-five years later, that perception has not changed as much as it should have Although a woman--or a man, for that matter--may take time off to care for children, that does not mean that she somehow loses a vital part of what made her a desirable employee in the first place. After having her child, she will likely return with more...
...great that there was Mark, who wouldpretty much always be up for a game of pool aslong as we could find a table within 10 miles. AndNadia, the Lionel B wanna-be who let me railroadher into doing all kinds of things that werestupid and useless but made life a little moreexciting...
...bring a huge picture with a heavy gilt frame. Harvard hates nail holes. Instead, the Yard powers will provide you with "poster gum," which is basically useless. Find other ways to hang pictures, or get used to minimalism of blank walls. Besides, you can rent original pictures from the Fogg collection cheap-the only fee is to cover the cost of insurance...
Character takes firm hold in this wondering account of fistfights and flood, car crashes, shootings, midnight departures, drinking and mulligrubbing. It's not all funny. There are a couple of childhood rapes and too many mornings of a mother hung over and useless. But Karr and her sister Lecia survive-Lecia to marry and turn Republican, Karr to be a poet (with such collections as The Devil's Tour) and to write a drop-dead reply to the question "Ma, what was it like when you were a little girl...
...competing system, called OpenDoc, that is supposed to run equally well on Windows, Mac and IBM's OS/2. But if a programmer uses OpenDoc instead of ole, he runs the risk that Microsoft will at some future point make a subtle change in Windows that would render his programs useless. "Everything Microsoft is building is linked to ole," says Jerry Michalski, editor of the newsletter Release 1.0. "Everywhere you look there are these dependencies...