Word: worthless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Your diplomas are worthless," he said. "I wish I had five cents for every glittering resume I've seen turned into nothing...
...your white pseudo-ID card. It doesn't do anything. It only looks cool to you and your friends at home. Don't expect to stop traffic (or open a door) flashing that worthless crap...
...Those are the figures. Here?s the spin. The NRA says that any report looking at the effect of ?guns and guns only? is ?worthless as a study of violence.? The medical community calls it an epidemic. ?If the United States had eight times the rate of disease than other rich nations, the people would be up in arms,? said Dr. Rebecca Peters of Johns Hopkins University. ?This would be a public health emergency.? Whether the guns or the people pulling the trigger are responsible, one thing is clear: We?ve got a whole lot of killing going...
...particular favorite of mine, a real "baggy monster" of a book, weighing in at a nice 700 or so pages. "I admire its ambition," the professor said. He thought that maybe it was a bit windy as well, but that was okay by me. Graduate students warned me against worthless projects, suitable for swelling libraries only. But lately, since university presses have started to look at marketability of scholarly studies in addition to their scholarly quality, it is no easy task to get a book published at all. In the end, it seems to be another of those issues...
...eats you up inside," she cries softly. "Ifelt worthless, hopeless, ugly and stupid. I justhated myself...