Word: worthlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South African law reserves virtually all highly skilled and white collar jobs for whites, and prohibits Blacks from supervising whites, thus rendering worthless Harvard's requirement that portfolio companies institute fair employment and management training programs for non-whites. There is, after all, no apparent reason to teach workers skills that it is illegal for them to use. The validity of the equal pay for equal work concept is likewise obscure in the context of South African law; in a country that forbids equal access to education and jobs, there is no equal work...
...Harvard Corporation wishes to continue abetting white rule in South Africa, it should do so without meretricious displays of moral concern and human compassion. Intrinsically worthless projects such as the specious "new initiatives" serve only to soothe the consciences of those who collaborate with tyranny, mislead the uninformed, and prolong the struggle for black liberation...
...past. "Absolutely everything they had taken for granted and counted on was removed," explains Richard Reoch of Amnesty International's London office. "It's a moral inversion where every human being you encounter has as his purpose to be cruel, to inflict pain, to lie or make you feel worthless." Victims suffer not only from severe injuries but also from survivor guilt, depression and a form of weary aimlessness born of disorientation, sleeplessness and recurrent nightmares. Fear of authorities is so deep that almost any kind of bureaucratic delay can panic a survivor. In Toronto last March, a Chilean torture...
...average frustrated New York City subway rider was palpable. The tabloids gleefully compared the "subway sigilante" to the Charles Bronson character in the movie "Death Wish," and set about gauging the level of public support, which was extremely high Police hotlines set up to collect eyewitness information proved virtually worthless; they were clogged with congratulations and others to pay for the legal defense of the gunman, whose advocates included civil rights leader Roy Innis...
...ills of all sorts, was 20% alcohol. The FDA argues, as do most doctors, that ineffective medications can be harmful because they tend to prevent a patient from seeking effective treatment. It is on that ground that the agency has fought against letting cancer victims be treated with apparently worthless products like Laetrile, even when the patients want them and claim to feel improvement. But ) baldness? Do furtive applications of Yuppiegoo really prevent a bald man from seeking more serious treatment? Does he really need serious treatment...