Word: worthlessness
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...major grounds on which we reject the latest proposal to legitimize a minimal amount of student advisory power. The Dowling proposal provides for no leverage in the University's decision-making process, and would have the practical effect of diverting student's political energy into yet another worthless committee...
Says Cuff Zukin, poll director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics: "We are overconsumed with predicting what will happen. Polls predicting who is going to win the election are worthless. First, they can be very inaccurate at the time of the election be cause they are only accurate at the time they are taken...
...RECOMMENDATIONS in the recently released study of minority and women Faculty represent a major departure from current hiring policies? Administrators and Faculty members seem unsure. If, as some suggest, the proposals do not portend a shift in Harvard's affirmative action practices, then the study will prove worthless...
...search for sunken treasure. Gasque, then a physicist by profession, agreed-a decision he will never regret. Plumbing the waters around the West Indies, Gasque, 30, and Frick, 46, have discovered two 19th century ships, about $250,000 in gold, Ming dynasty china and pearls, and a seemingly worthless old wreck that may turn out to be the most precious find of all. The ship, discovered two years ago in 30 ft. of clear water 60 miles north of Haiti, is, according to a growing number of scholars, Christopher Columbus' Pinta, sister ship to the Nina and the flagship...
...well-hidden hoard." He likes bullion the best, but he also favors some gold mine stocks and South African Krugerrands. He confidently predicts that gold will eventually hit at least $1,600 per oz., but fails to say when. That kind of open-ended prognostication is all but worthless...