Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...product of a racist self-styled analyst, Hirschorn's tirade can be classified as an attempt to refine that schism. By tying worthless praise of Reverend Jackson's to the contingency that he support the Democratic nominee, and by suggesting that the destruction of the two-primary system in the South will hurt Black voters by leading to the election of Southern Republicans, he glosses over the fact that historically, Southern Democrats have been the most overtly racist members of the U.S power elite. Ultimately, it makes no real difference to the plight of Blacks in Mississippi if democrat John...
...proved unattainable. Secretary of State George Shultz made the mistake of accepting some vague assurances from the Syrians that they would leave Lebanon if the Israelis did too. After months of U.S. diplomatic shuttling around the Middle East, Shultz got his Israeli-Lebanese withdrawal agreement. But the pact was worthless because the Syrians, by now rearmed to the hilt by the Soviet Union, were not about to leave. They felt that the agreement legitimized the 1982 invasion by giving Israel special rights in southern Lebanon...
...trends in rare books are important to Ruth R. Rogers of the Kress Library of Business and Economics. Rogers pays special attention to German books of the 17th century for traces of anti-Semitism evident in the dealings of money-changers who cheated their Jewish customers by giving them worthless coins. Rogers also recommends the materials from the Bancroft Collection on the South Sea Bubble, which include posters, pamphlets, and books chronicling the speculative main which swept through England in the 1720's, when lots of financiers invested their money in tulips. "There's always something to be learned from...
Ninety-nine percent of the rock videos are musically insipid, banal and worthless. A good song does not need hokey visuals to give it meaning...
...stuff to be the Democratic presidential nominee. He would "define" himself both as a person and as a candidate. His organization would coalesce and transform Glenn's astronaut charisma into grass-roots support. Walter Mondale, meanwhile, was supposed to fold under pressure. His string of endorsements would prove worthless as uninspired voters looked for a candidate with more fire. As 1984 began, according to Glenn scenarists, the two men would be running neck and neck...