Word: worthlessness
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...peddling the Yankee bonds to smaller institutions, and there is talk of offering them to individuals as well. That effort might face another obstacle: memories of the 1930s, when an earlier wave of foreign-bond borrowings in the U.S. ended in massive defaults, and many of the bonds became worthless wallpaper. Still, few experts expect that to happen again-and, anyway, an interest premium is an interest premium...
...fall from bourgeois grace, and like so many films by this great surrealist director, it is art of the most subversive kind. Buñuel wants the audience to see the world as he ultimately forces Mathieu to see it-as an irrational state where logic is a worthless tool. In Obscure Object the director never bothers to explain Conchita's stubborn celibacy or any of his story's other absurdities, for he does not believe that any explanations exist. In Buñuel's view, life's visible events are random and misleading; the sooner...
...smelling faintly of the lemon verbena that scented great-grandmother's chiffonier. "Save your Confederate money, son," the vainglorious slogan insisted. "The South will rise again." It took a century and a Southerner in the White House, but the time has come. With chitlin chic upon us, once worthless Confederate bills have become a gold mine for Rebel diehards...
...more. Many companies already exert subtle and not so subtle pressure on older people to get them to retire. Says Detroit Attorney V. Paul Donnelly, who specializes in age-discrimination cases involving white-collar workers: "If they are going to do you in by age 53 and make you worthless, increasing the retirement age is not the answer. I believe it means nothing...
Boston, like all major American cities, has its fair share of worthless, bigoted politicians, but Boston is distinguished from other cities by the lack of influence residents and elected officials exert over issues that directly affect the city...