Word: worthlessness
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...that in more than a dozen cases in the last decade or so the FBI has stepped in to "control" the relationship, fearing a staffer might begin giving out restricted data. In some cases, the FBI has used the aide as a double agent, allowing him to pass on worthless material while actually spying on the Soviet officials. To date, the FBI says, it has found no staffer who has given unauthorized information to the Russians...
Some task force members fear that failure to reach agreement in the task forces and coordinating committee could throw the final educational decisions into Rosovsky's lap, rendering worthless years of work and the dean's carefully devised system. Rosovsky rejected this notion ("I hope you don't have an army view of the way things work") and insists that, although he is chairman of the coordinating panel, each of its members has an equal voice. And to act by fiat, Rosovsky adds, would only be to doom his efforts to failure: "This faculty is self-governing in educational matters...
...After picking you up for soliciting, the cops offer to negotiate in the back seat of the squad car. If you score enough point, the wonderful boys in blue could let you off with a warning...then again their promises are pretty worthless and you can find yourself with the 'ol' jailhouse blues anyway," St. James said...
...wealth from taxation and confiscation of these companies represents a windfall from the American free market. In fact, third world resources themselves only have value because of the existence of a mighty, developed, American free market economy (and others similarly developed). The oil under Arab lands would be totally worthless if not for an American economy that could use it to produce needed goods and services and provide commodities in exchange. American productivity spills over in many other ways too--supplying capital where allowed, spreading technological breakthroughs, exporting innovations, offering a strong market for the products of foreign labor...
Ronald Reagan is the prototype American politician of the '70s: mindless, witless, positionless and worthless...