Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer. The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it intends to ban all over-the-counter cures for baldness (along with a number of alleged aphrodisiacs and other worthless nostrums). It is not banning any prescription drugs, notably minoxidil, an anti-high-blood-pressure medication that Upjohn is now testing on baldness. Nor is it opposed to hair transplants. It is forbidding only those obscure salves and creams that falsely promise an end to baldness. "These products do not prevent hair loss or grow hair," said an FDA spokesman, Edward R. Nida. "How you lose or keep your...
Neither was a 62-60 loss to Dartmouth last weekend at home. Even the airlines- return-trip reservations proved worthless when Northeastern Airlines went out of business last week-seemed to be against them...
That leaves the best reason for giving honors--honoring high academic achievement--but under Harvard's current honors system, it is difficult to see many of the cums Harvard hands out as anything more than worthless trinkets. Seventy-one percent of Harvard's graduating seniors last year received some kind of honors, a figure for higher than the rest of the Ivy League...
...nuclear negotiating table allowed Talbott to write the best nuclear handbook for the layman, to conduct the most exhaustive research available on the nuclear negotiating process, and to one-sidedly trash the Reagan Administration's approach. This mixture of good information and slanted analysis makes Deadly Gambits worthless, and even dangerous, as a guideline for the U.S. government and the American voter...
Human beings are being killed and abused in South Africa! What good is a University if it does not actively try to change the world outside its campus for the better? I will tell you: It is worthless...