Word: uselessness
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When it comes to money, pennies are often derided as useless. The one-cent coins collect in jars and banks in countless closets and back shelves...
...wheel riding a cart!), and these moments of transcendent anthropomorphism simultaneously account for the film's humor and its morbid undercurrent. Eventually the series will break down or burn out, and the redundancy of individual steps will seem an absurd observation in the context of an elaborate but useless machine...
With the end of mandatory retirement, there is a threat that FAS will come to resemble a useless geriatric ward. Retirement incentives, wielded appropriately, offer a promising solution to this problem. We hope that FAS will consider the interests of the students paramount to their charitable instincts and will encourage those past their prime to make room for fresh blood...
...sign anything; you don't have to wait to call the credit-card company." Smart cards are like cash in another way: lose them, and you're out the money, although Chase's Mondex cards are encoded with the user's personal identification number, making a stolen card useless. Mondex's cards also allow consumers to transfer value among their own cards by means of an electronic "wallet," good for settling restaurant tabs and poker games...
Rehavi said she felt the drive was a success but was quick to add that "registering to vote is really useless if you don't go out and vote...