Word: worthlessness
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...practice remains overwhelmingly the exception and not the rule. Only about 40 millimeter-wave devices are in use, at 19 U.S. airports. Standard magnetometers, which are used at the vast majority of the more than 2,000 checkpoint lanes nationwide, can detect metal in guns and knives but are worthless against explosives like PETN...
...first major broadcast network, founded in New York City in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America (a subsidiary of General Electric) as a ploy to sell radios. (Radios absent programming, after all, are rather worthless.) Dubbed the National Broadcast Company, it originally had two separate networks, both focused primarily on the East Coast: the Red Network, which broadcast entertainment and music, and the Blue Network, which carried news. In 1927 the West Coast got its own version of the Red and Blue with the creation of the Orange and Gold networks, which largely showed the same programs. Two years...
...supposed to get people to sign up for the Borders Rewards program by telling them that it’s a free card because when we tell people something is free, “[we’re] essentially telling them that it’s worthless.” I guess he would say Kid A is superior. I’m pretty sure we don’t have that in stock at Borders though...
Anyone who spent their hard-earned money to see director Ron Howard’s “Angels And Demons” this past summer knows too well that even acclaimed directors can produce worthless trash from time to time. Here is a list of the top terrible movies made by usually great directors...
...repressive and impoverished nations in the world, that's not the case. The government announced that it would limit the amount an individual can exchange to just 100,000 won - or less than $40 at black-market exchange rates - and any amount above that threshold would be, in effect, worthless. NGOs in Seoul reported that in response to citizens' immediate and widespread anger, those limits were raised to 150,000 won in cash and 500,000 won in bank notes. (See pictures of the rise of Kim Jong...