Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speaking of useless rhetoric, is anyone going to stop pundits from declaring what The American People want? First, there is no "The American People." There are whites and blacks, Northerners and Southerners, Protestants and Catholics, rich and poor. It's problematic enough to try to say what these groups want, but it is idiotic to claim to speak for The American People united. More important, such talk leaves out the question of what different people with different values should want...
...awful as the Asian correction is, it was, in a sense, inevitable because those economies had trundled billions of dollars into useless real estate and industrial development. "In general," said Summers, 44, as he sat in the Frankfurt airport last fall recovering from a hectic trip to Moscow, "we start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient." Over dinner recently someone congratulated Rubin on the booming U.S. economy and pointed out that one international magazine had been uniformly wrong in its predictions of a complete global collapse. The Secretary wasn...
...future consists of questions from what to do with that now useless but expensive Ethernet card to how to unsubscribe from all those mailing lists. For most of us, watching streaming video over the Internet will be considered a brief luxurious memory of the Golden Age at Harvard...
...Undergraduate Council has taken its share of punches over the years. We have been called useless, incompetent and removed from the concerns of students. Many undergraduates have no idea who their council representatives are or what exactly the council does every Sunday night at 7 p.m. The average students' only contact with the council is during a quick bite of a fly-by lunch on a weekday afternoon, although some students are probably even unaware that fly-by was the accomplishment of a council member...
...explains Carolyn, 52, a teacher who homeschools daughter Sarah, 17, and son David, 14. (Their son Lesley, 23, also lives at home.) For them, planning has meant buying a home generator, a 1,000-gal. propane tank and a small flock of chickens. The Heads expect cash to be useless for a while after Y2K sets in. So stashed throughout their four-bedroom house are hundreds of rolls of toilet paper. "These are good barter items," Jerry explains...