Word: worthlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electronic or communication devices necessary for gathering intelligence. Without extremely sophisticated equipment, which would require visible changes in the shape of the jet and the addition of large antennas, a high-altitude flight at night by a 747 would have little use in reconnaissance. Such a mission would be worthless from the U.S. standpoint, since American satellites and the RC-135s provide far more detailed intelligence than any modified 747 could. The U.S. has never sent out a 747 on a spy mission, Air Force sources insist. Korean President Chun Doo Hwan was vehement in his denial of the spying...
...executive director of the New York State Governor's Commission on Domestic Violence, describes her experience in her first marriage as typical. When she was pregnant her husband broke her nose. She told everyone she had fallen down. The obstetrician never questioned the bruises on her body. "I felt worthless, totally to blame, responsible for my husband's actions. I kept thinking, 'If I had done something different, things would improve.' You gradually change. You think, 'If I can stop doing x, y or z, then nothing will happen.' You assume all responsibility...
...government had already tried to discredit me abroad by printing a phony card that was supposed to show I was a member of Batista's political police and by trying to show that I had been a torturer. On my release I was easily able to show how worthless this proof was. If I had been a police torturer, Castro himself would have had me shot or imprisoned as soon as the revolutionaries seized power. Instead, I was promoted, and at the time of my arrest, I was a civil servant...
...appears to accept the popular charge that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was involved in the conspiracy behind the Piltdown man forgery. Gould's accusation, however, has not been accepted by experts. J.S. Weiner, who first uncovered the hoax and then the hoaxer, dismissed Gould's account as worthless. British Scholar Kenneth Oakley, who originally supported Gould's contention that Teilhard faked the Piltdown fossil as part of a youthful prank, later changed his mind. After being shown evidence that contradicted Gould, Oakley declared that the basis of Gould's charge against Teilhard "has now been proved...
...balances work to guard against the zealous efforts of paranoid cold warriors--however, in this case the system worked only by accident. Shared authority in government is rooted in the premise that the judgment of one branch of government--or balance--the views of another; such control is worthless if a given lunacy pervades all government organs...