Word: uselessness
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...Clearly, cutting Harvard’s own emissions is next to useless on its own. But even if the measure generates national publicity, the EAC would do far better to present an accurate measurement of the costs to give this exercise in student box-checking some meaning. Without a clear idea of the necessary sacrifices, a potentially powerful student demand is reduced to a futile wish...
...more, the Council doesn’t seem to be particularly good at being a figurehead. True, legislation is like sausage making: both are worthwhile, but you don’t want to see either process. In the case of the UC, however, not only is the product fairly useless, but the factory has been deeply dysfunctional for years. In fact, other than asking for money that will be handed out unpredictably, the most interaction most of us have with the UC is the occasional cynical joke we might make...
...Harvard Square’s fire station does not have such an antenna; technicians say it would be useless. The station is surrounded by the Yard and other Harvard property that is already connected to the Internet through the University...
...Ironically, the plane's unique emergency equipment was useless in this case. Each Cirrus plane has a large parachute that can be deployed to allow a plane in trouble to float safely to the ground. Several Cirrus planes and their pilots have been saved by their parachutes, and the chute apparently gave Lidle an impressive amount of confidence in his $187,000 plane. "The whole plane has a parachute on it," Lidle told the New York Times last month. "Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land...
There is one ironic truth that the book hits upon, though. Its opening chapters talk of how Washington is divided between “wonks” and “hacks”—the former being all brains, the latter being all strategy, both useless without the other...