Word: uselessness
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...time for Bush to come around. Although the Office of Homeland Security may prove valuable in years to come, it will be useless in the short-term, when we need it most. Director Ridge has so much to learn about the security community that he will be ineffectual for some time. And once he gets his act together, his powers will remain limited without a Congressional mandate. With the White House’s national security responsibilities divided so many ways already—between the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, and the Chiefs of Staff, to name...
...scripted and did not have much to say about campus life at all, at least not about campus life in this century. If I had not come armed with the questions every tour guide really hates to be asked, I would have ended up with a fascinating but thoroughly useless Harvard history lesson...
...begin my daily get-ready regimen with a few Bloussant wonder pills only to have the “guaranteed” growth formula create a rash that the lovely nurses at UHS would diagnose as pregnancy for sure or, even worse, add a third useless boobie to the two I’ve already...
...terror alliance with Russia would change the administration's thinking on its dispute with Moscow over the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the President replied the terror attacks has strengthened his case for missile defense and that he hoped they would convince Russia that the treaty was "outdated, antiquated and useless," And that may be the surest sign that the administration intends to live by its advice to the American people, to resume going about their business...
...disaster could not have happened farther away. That was the first rebuke to the survivalists. International terrorists, it seems, just aren't interested in Montana, and guns are useless when the enemy is 2,000 miles out of firing range. They're doubly useless when you can't get parts for them. Like so much of the isolated, rural West, Montana is inordinately dependent on UPS and FedEx for supplies, but suddenly such services were grounded. The lack of fresh seafood was a minor annoyance; the stalled shipments of car parts and medicines were serious, as was the disappearance...