Word: uselessness
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Gorbachev's initiative will make it ever more difficult for Reagan to put forth a public case for pursuing his Star Wars program. Said the Soviet leader: "Instead of wasting the next ten to 15 years by developing new weapons in space, allegedly designed to make nuclear arms useless, would it not be more sensible to eliminate those arms?" Reagan is caught in a public relations bind: it will be difficult for him to explain convincingly why he is prepared to scuttle a plan to rid the world of nuclear missiles by insisting on the right to build a defensive...
Melton has often reiterated that he wants the U.S. to loosen restrictions on how federal funds can be distributed—arguing that the ostensible license to conduct stem cell research is useless unless the government backs scientists financially...
...either side of the Anderson Bridge, which connects John F. Kennedy St. and North Harvard St. across the Charles. Some students who live in Allston will need to take a shuttle to get to classes (the construction of a subway line notwithstanding), but such a shuttle will be useless unless the traffic-plagued intersections through which its route would have to run are redesigned...
...expressly for his ability to strut in front of a band and tear up a Crimson blanket. Both are the meaningless figureheads of their respective institutions, all bark and no bite; both inhabit silly expensive palaces—Versailles and Yale—pretty on the outside but pretty useless on the inside (where it counts). In fact, ironically enough, Handsome Dan XV’s first name was—drum roll—Louis...
...attempted remedy was the deployment of 2,200 African Union (AU) troops to monitor a nonexistent cease-fire. But the troops are under-trained, under-funded, and under-supplied. The AU’s mandate does not even extend to civilian protection; these troops cannot stop killings and are useless. And since the embarrassing quagmire of Somalia in 1993 and the killing of Belgian United Nations peacekeepers in Rwanda in 1994, there seems to be no political will to send American or European troops to fight another African...