Word: worthlessness
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Greenspan was afraid that domestic politics might eventually compel an economically struggling borrower to default on all its loans, encouraging other countries to follow suit. That, in turn, would confront Western finance officials with a cruel choice. On the one hand, the lenders could wipe the worthless loans off their books and invite a worldwide financial contraction because of dwindling monetary reserves. On the other hand, central banks could attempt to avoid such a massive depression by buying up the defaulted loans. That would keep the international financial system functioning, but it would also cause a wild new burst...
...signing of a paper and the building of a foundation, an itching land-greed seemed to come over them. They wanted more and more land?good land if possible, but land anyway . . . The early settlers took up land they didn't need and couldn't use; they took up worthless land just to own it. ?John Steinbeck, East of Eden...
...same time that the letters were signed, Calvi secretly absolved the Vatican Bank from any responsibility in the transaction. The effect was to render the letters legally worthless. This has bewildered police investigators...
...WHOLE PROCESS of writing is rewriting," contends John Gregory Dunne. Working simultaneously on a new novel. The Red White and Blue and the screenplay for a movie based on his earlier work. Vegas. Dunne views the creation of fiction as organic. People and plot grow together: "The situations is worthless without a character, and the character is worthless without a situation: asking which came first is the chicken or the egg question...
Frank Firk, chairman of the physics department said the reports are worthless because at 4 on a Sunday afternoon you might spend five minutes thinking about a research problem then the next five minutes thinking about Tuesday's lecture...