Word: worthlessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more than a month, newspapers in Yugoslavia have been dribbling out the details of the country's biggest financial scandal since World War II. The scam centers on Agrokomerc, a giant food-processing firm that issued up to $400 million in worthless promissory notes to 63 Yugoslav banks. So far eight people, including the firm's president, have been arrested. The scandal, dubbed "Agrogate" by the local press, took a dramatic turn last week. As allegations mounted that he and his family were implicated, Hamdija Pozderac, 63, Yugoslavia's Vice President, abruptly resigned. He had been scheduled to begin...
Ordinary stamps were then substituted for the valuable ones. Six days later, 85 of the misprints were sold through a New Jersey dealer, Jacques Schiff. (The CIA staffers had attempted to sell 86, but one of the stamps was torn and, consequently, worthless.) A well-known trader of misprinted stamps, Schiff refuses to disclose how much the spooks were paid for their goods. Since then, however, Schiff has brokered three sales of the stamps. In the last transaction, 50 stamps were sold to the Mystic Stamp Co. for nearly $1 million, or $20,000 a stamp...
...local papers and TV stations chime in: if brutal crime can reach even the chief prosecutor's office and go unpunished, it is time for a change. As he has so often in the past, Horgan turns to Rusty, his reliable protege: "Catch me a perpetrator and save my worthless...
There was very little public repose to be disturbed. Seven years of war had nearly bankrupted the colonies, and both credit and currency were almost worthless. The supposedly united states quarreled fiercely over economic resources, like oyster-harvesting rights in Chesapeake Bay, and Congress had no real power to keep the peace. The brief but violent Massachusetts farmers' uprising, known as Shays' Rebellion, had provided a garish vision of things to come. Though it had taken Virginia's James Madison and his like-minded colleagues nearly two years to prepare the way for this "Federal Convention," the scheduled opening...
...Nevertheless, their reservations about loading a department with specialists in flowers that bloom in the spring and fade in the summer seem to me to do them credit. The back offices of history departments which did not resist pressure to be up-to-date are now full of such worthless rubbish, which by law they must keep until death do them part. J.H. Hexter Professor of History Director Center for the History of Freedom Washington Univeristy in St. Louis