Word: valuelessness
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...object to military service. For some people the military is a complete waste of time. For those who will learn a useful skill or gain valuable experience in human relations and management, military service might be worthwhile. For others, like those working toward an academic career, it is valueless, a loss of time that could be put to better use. Furthermore, what does a future history or biology professor have to offer the armed forces that anyone else does not have? The military does not need everyone of eligible age. Let it bypass those who will contribute least and lose...
...love of the air and sky, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane; where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant...
...office safe, McCormack reminded the House, was a written agreement between himself and Johnson that outlined McCormack's responsibilities if Johnson became disabled. That agreement, he said, was not only "outside the law," but valueless as well, since "I could never have made the decision" to declare Johnson unfit. Added McCormack: "There are so many human considerations involved. For example, my motives might well be impugned. Also, there could be the feeling that I might be involved in a quest for personal power...
...state's food and drug administration. Nothing may come of the meeting; and that would be all to the good. Harvard Square is clearly not an important source for narcotics, and a commitment of either state agents or more Cambridge police would produce only a temporary--and largely valueless--decline in the traffic...
...fashion, but when rival players drive toward the basket, the shorter front men trade them off to the taller deep men-instead of following them in. The idea basically is to nullify a size disadvantage by forcing the other team to shoot from the outside, where height is relatively valueless. "We aren't a big team," says Mullaney, "so we have to try different things"-and lately he has been alternating his combination with a zone press, in which the Providence defenders pounce on the attackers as soon as they reach midcourt, trying to force wild throws that...