Word: uselessness
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...decision about their state campaign finance system—a decision that the legislature should respect by appropriating the funds that would put the law into effect. As it stands now, though the Clean Elections law is on the books, the refusal by politicians to fund it makes it useless. The high court’s principled ruling that flouting the will of the voters is contrary to the spirit of the Massachusetts Constitution is the first step toward restoring the transparency in government that the voters desired when they approved the law in the first place...
...critical questions about the precise sequence of events as the plane began to break apart, and exactly how and when the tail section separated from the body of the plane. This is the second video record the board has obtained of the crash, but the first one was virtually useless because the plane could be seen only as a tiny speck...
...that assumption is the subject of renewed debate, thanks to a two-year-old Danish study. The controversial paper, first published in the British journal The Lancet and updated last October, posits that numerous flaws in current mammography technique render the results virtually useless. It also suggests that while mammograms may mean earlier detection of breast cancer, earlier detection does not necessarily mean a lower mortality rate. Specialists across the country met this proposition with outrage, fearing it could keep women from maintaining their mammography schedule...
...their shoulders waiting for them to fail." It would not require more money to improve and coordinate these programs, she says. It would just require more smarts. At Gowanda Correctional Facility in upstate New York, Sanders went through a prerelease prep program. But all the information seemed outdated or useless. No one from the state's housing, welfare or Medicaid services came to help the soon to be released begin the paperwork chase, he says. So when Sanders came out and started the process, he had to wait the customary 45 days to receive health care. Those first days...
...Bishop violated the rules, but as has become painfully obvious in the post 9/11 world, any threat of punishment is useless to someone intent on committing suicide. Bishop flew over restricted airspace, and prompted a military response, but attempts to stop him were futile...