Word: uselessness
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...grave detachment in both the narrator's long speeches and the round-eyed, wondering queries of a small boy. But the most memorable player is the one who has least to do. As the kindest and most dutiful sister, Brid Brennan sits at her knitting, soon to be rendered useless by machines, with a soft look of utter absence in her eyes...
...fact, the Macs there are awesome, powerful machines. The problem is they lack software--any software at all. It's like having a Ferrari with no fuel--useless...
...those without insurance, all the money the hospital has thrown into expensive technology is less than useless. It means--pure and simple--less money going to basic care for the needy...
...Fear No Art" has, sadly, become another useless, unheeded cliche. The bipartisan attack on most forms of expression is largely sponsored by special interest groups. Unfortunately, the selective opposition to censorship by those groups that claim to be in favor of freedom of expression has further endangered this freedom. Unnoticed by most, our civil liberties are slowly disappearing. And the best recent example of this is the controversy surrounding Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho...
...EFFECT of unions occurs because of their "democratization" of an industry's workforce. The wage gap between skilled and less skilled union workers tends to decrease, penalizing the more productive and ambitious workers. This phenomenon wrought havoc on the Swedish economy, making any advanced training or higher education virtually useless...