Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found, the underthemes and structural weaknesses of America now: the destruction of families and absence of parents, the astonishingly pervasive presence of drugs and gun violence, a sort of postmodern lostness and indiscipline. The self-absorbed fecklessness of the adults--the abdicated parents in most of these dramas, often useless druggies and alcoholics themselves--makes the reader despise them in a way he never quite hated Pap Finn...
...root of the problem. With an Internet connection, you can gather the latest stuff from all over, but too many American high school students have never read one Mark Twain novel or Shakespeare play or Wordsworth poem, or a serious history of the U.S.; they are bad at science, useless at mathematics, hopeless at writing--but if they could only connect to the latest websites in Passaic and Peru, we'd see improvement? The Internet, said President Clinton in February, "could make it possible for every child with access to a computer to stretch a hand across a keyboard...
These informal bargaining arenas allow seniors to advertise items for sale, in many cases objects that might seem bulky and useless outside of the college environment--like a futon or halogen lamp. Prospective undergrad buyers inspect the goods and sometimes try to haggle over price...
...help the situation. In a year when most student groups received about $250 from council coffers, the council has also spent $340 of student money on its own "random acts of kindness," and $1,000 to send four of its delegates to conference many of its members say is useless...
...hackers stole from Pentagon computers last week, the government and its team of hired experts mocked the self-important MOD's grandiose claims of being able to shut down the military's network. None of what they took was classified, says the Pentagon, and what they do have is useless without classified data, which lives in computers that aren't even connected to the Internet...