Word: useless
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...James A. Shapiro, research fellow in Bacteriology and Immunology, yesterday said, "Whatever I could do in the lab is useless at this time. The only constructive thing that people can do right now is to challenge the present political system...
...faith." As a result, the Germans learned little of consequence. Another reason for the failure of Nazi espionage may well have been Teutonic overkill. No fewer than five separate Nazi agencies had spies in Rome. Much of the information they provided was so contradictory that it was useless...
...particular isotopes the researchers are interested in have half-lives of only 5 to 14 days. so after about two weeks the fragments would have been useless to many scientists...
...workers reported sick, and hospitals in a score of cities closed their doors against all but emergency admissions. Mortality figures rose steadily; although influenza rarely causes death directly, it kills the infirm aged and very young by secondary diseases such as pulmonary ailments. Except for these complications, antibiotics are useless. Nevertheless, in Britain as elsewhere, there was a widespread demand for them and for even less effective drugs. Vaccination, at this late stage of a continent-wide epidemic, will be wasted on many people who have already been exposed to infection, since the shot takes two to three weeks...
...attempts to provide depth in characterization are the weakest parts of the film: a few quick flashback shots for Yves Montand, as useless as John Schlesinger's attempt to create a past for Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy; Costa-Gravas's seeming attempt to link one character's villainry with homosexuality...