Word: uselessness
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...attempt to make a poignant film about Bosnian war victims. Gervais’ cohorts include Ashley Jensen as Andy’s dim-witted friend Maggie Jacobs, and his “Office” and “Extras” co-creator Stephen Merchant as useless agent Darren Lamb...
...propulsion system that is 10 times more efficient. Just as novel is a half-kilogram rover that Hayabusa will dispatch to roam the asteroid for several days. The robot, named Minerva, will use its miniature cameras and thermometers to send data back to the mothership. Since wheels are useless on such low-gravity surfaces, the coffee-can-sized machine will maneuver using an internal pendulum?a swinging weight that will let the bot hop about the surface...
...subjected to a barrage of emaciated women in Harvard sweatshirts soliciting me with pamphlets at pre-professional meetings. It’s a useless and sad exercise, and I generally end up giving the pamphlets a new lease on life as origami cranes...
...public corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi was first.) Friends of the Bush administration are already salivating at the sight of billions in no-bid contracts, and like the reconstruction of Iraq, the money allocated for the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast is liable to windup in useless pet projects or outright malfeasance...
Monday, 27 November: All my life I've been expecting the call. Selector Merv Hughes rang this morning. "The Poms aren't scared of us anymore," he said. "The zip has gone out of the attack, the middle order is useless. We need someone special." They wanted me to have a crack. There hadn't been a decent sledger since Hayden retired. Even he was piss weak compared with Steve Waugh. Legend. The world saw how I stuck it up Bush and called Howard an arse licker. Torched the Labor party, too. With so many Welshmen and 'Boks...