Word: uselessness
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...were to be offered surgical masks, but there has been such a run on them that too few were available. Instead, bandannas were distributed, which fans were told to wear around their mouths. "When you wear them all day, the [bandannas] get all wet with saliva and sweat, becoming useless," said Lo Wing-lok, president of the Hong Kong Medical Association. Hong Kong officials apparently felt they could not afford to cancel a popular event that would boost a tourism industry in free fall: since the disease hit, city restaurants have seen a 15% drop in dinner business, and travel...
...school's toilets were overflowing with feces, the power generator was useless and most of the fixtures had been carted away. There was only one child's drawing tacked to a wall, and all of the schools books were locked away in a back room. The locals say that government teachers show up on a regular basis, but the kids only go to school when a party official comes and tells them to. When he leaves, so do the children. The books are only issued when an inspector comes to visit and then immediately collected up until the next inspection...
...novels when they have homework, fellowship applications, job applications and medical school applications (i.e. more important things). Heck, for all my championing of pleasure reading, even I’m not planning to devote my life to that: Not only would it be ridiculous, it’s also useless in the practical sense. Who would pay me a six-figure salary to let me work my way with relish through piles of fiction? Isn’t the purpose of my time at Harvard to obtain a profession that’ll let me retire at 50 and sunbathe...
...fact, Harvard Printing and Publishing Services CoursePack Coordinator Geraldine Barney explained that enrollment estimates are only one of many varied reasons for long coursepack production delays—issues such as the readability of submitted materials and communication with professors are tantamount. But most significantly, preregistration will prove useless in counteracting skyrocketing coursepack prices, which are almost entirely a consequence of copyright fees. Likewise at the Coop, as Store Manager Scott Montgomery explained, preregistration will have no effect on prices. Better enrollment estimates could potentially affect whether textbooks sell out too quickly, but this concern is negligible. Montgomery estimated that...
...valued. This culture of shopping period will not disappear easily; students will pack their preregistration forms with five courses they fear will be lotteried—planning on dropping some and adding the great courses that they find later on—thus subverting the system and making it useless...