Word: worthless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every time someone says "Where's it at?" it is as if a counterfeit dollar enters the nation's money supply. Gradually, people lose faith in the currency until it is as worthless as the German mark in the '30s. When it takes a wheelbarrow full of bills to buy a loaf of bread, the monetary system is no longer useful as a standard for trade. When "don't" follows "he" and "doesn't" follows "I," language is no longer a useful standard for communication...
...drug use could damage public safety -- air-traffic controller, for instance. All other federal workers will most probably be asked to submit to "voluntary" tests. Critics argue that such a system would involve enough pressure so that the tests would not be truly voluntary or that they would be worthless because only those who are clean would sign...
...long as it has received a historic stamp of approval from the rest of society. But if White were to study the history of Western rights he would discover that they were designed to protect precisely that area of conduct that is most frequently impugned. The Constitution is a worthless document if it enforces only that which does not need enforcing. A right to privacy that allows one to eat what one wants or to arrange one's furniture to one's liking seems a bit superfluous these days...
...time to write his story so that his family and friends will know the truth. In addition, Rickie Pym has just died, his corpse bobbing in a tub of ice water until funeral expenses can be scraped up. It is a grotesquely comic end for a man who built worthless paper empires and stood for Parliament while scandal swirled at his feet...
...movie becomes unbelievable as we get to know her two husbands because we cannot understand why Alice could want either, much less both, of these worthless...