Word: valuelessness
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...government’s claim that the work on this project was valueless is an insult to the scores of HIID employees and consultants who gave their souls to this project,” said Boston attorney David J. Apfel, who is representing the University...
...USAID routinely praised HIID’s efforts, calling the work historic and extremely successful,” Harvard lawyers wrote in a motion submitted to the court. “Now...USAID says that all of HIIDs work in Russia was rendered valueless by a handful of nominal personal investments made by Andrei Shleifer and Jonathan Hay while they were serving as advisors to the Russian government...
Hunter S. Thompson once explained the abundance of Bible quotes in his work by noting that as deadlines approach and articles remain unwritten, deadlines pass and psychotic editors are alarmingly willing to sacrifice invaluable quality for valueless punctuality. Then one finds himself in a hotel room with only a typewriter and the Gideon Bible. Also, Jesus spoke through...
...absence is in some way voluntary—observing a religious holiday, going home after a death in the family—we allow exceptions on the argument that these commitments are too important for students to be asked to compromise them. But these exceptions are neutral and valueless; we don’t allow professors to give Jews exceptions but not Catholics. Exceptions based on one’s commitment to the living wage, however, would not be neutral—especially as a means of expressing “support”—and would...
When his contract runs out in a month, Thorsen will hardly be the only dotcom refugee standing in line. Nor will he be the only one cursing his valueless options. This has always been a highly volatile industry, but recent events have been on the scale of a virtual earthquake. Here's a sample of the casualty list for just two days last week: More than a third of Seattle-based Hardware.com's workers went under the hammer. Furniture.com in Framingham, Mass., laid off 80 employees--that's 41% of its work force. Streaming video site Pseudo.com axed 58 jobs...