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Word: worthlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canada, you've already lost one revered athlete in Wayne Gretzky, and your must now share the shame of your Olympic star surrendering his gold medal in the 100-meter dash, a world record accomplishment tarnished because of steroids. All your efforts to sponsor your athlete seem worthless. You have a right to be dismayed...

Author: By David Y. Cooper, | Title: Hall of Shame | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

...concurred and even added a few more doubts. I had gone over the question every which way with L.B.J., until he got irritated and stormed that he would not do the Kennedy family's bidding. He declared that the vice presidency was a worthless job compared with being Senate leader, related the sad tenure of "Cactus Jack" Garner, who had called the office nothing more than a "pitcher of warm spit," and said Speaker Sam Rayburn had told him to stay far away from it. If he could not be President, he would stay in the Senate, Johnson had told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats The Presidency: Boston-Austin Was an Accident | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

Iran's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 87, vowed Monday to dedicate his "worthless life" to fighting the United States. His designated heir, Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, called for total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iranian Jet Used Military Radio Channel | 7/6/1988 | See Source »

...Tehran radio Monday, Khomeini said: "We must all be prepared for a real war and go to the war fronts and fight against America and its lackeys. I donate my worthless life for the sake of our victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Iranian Jet Used Military Radio Channel | 7/6/1988 | See Source »

Enter cyclosporine. Discovered in 1970 by a scientist at Sandoz, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, the drug was nearly abandoned as worthless. Unexpectedly, however, researchers found that it was a highly selective suppressor of helper T cells. By preventing the activation of the T cells, the drug interferes with the body's instinct to attack a transplanted organ. Yet unlike other suppressants, it does not affect other parts of the immune system. Cyclosporine is thus able to dampen the rejection reaction while leaving a large part of the body's infection-fighting defenses intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How A Miracle Drug Disarms The Body's Defenses | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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