Word: worthlessness
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...afford to spend $400 million raising worthless pieces of a sunken Russian submarine [March 31], surely we can afford to spend half that amount in Cambodia and perhaps preserve our credibility as an ally...
...face of the earth, we have a special obligation. Not only must we act to help those in need, but also we must act to ensure that the nation we are citizens of does not continue to use its power, in our name, for oppression and exploitation. Concern is worthless if it does not issue in action. Concern is another name for indifference when one does not do what...
TIME'S cover story asks us to show an element of trust regarding a Middle East settlement. Are we supposed to trust Terrorist Arafat, or the oil sheiks, or the U.N., or international guarantees that were worthless in the past...
...others worry about the consequences. It is a journalistic ethic that might seem callous and irresponsible at first, but it makes great sense, because an editor can never know what the effects of disclosure will be. So why should he trap a good story in the morass of worthless hypotheses? The Times should know this more than other papers, because it was once badly burned by sitting with great civic pompousity on a piece of hot news. In 1961, The Times learned of the upcoming Bay of Pigs invasion--"an important ongoing operation," as Rosenthal would say--but the publisher...
...Earthquake before the chance is lost. If you don't see (feel) this magnificent schlock, it's your loss. Sensurround--the greatest innovation to hit movies since 3D glasses--feels like a bout on a motel room bed with the Magic Fingers massager. Sure the script and actors are worthless (except for old Lloyd Nolan) but when the Sensurround starts, you'll wonder how you ever lived without it. They set up these big 15 foot speakers, see and when it's time for the quake, big waves of low intensity sound roll out across the audience, untying shoelaces...