Word: worthlessness
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...sham. Two wealthy, upper-class homosexuals make the mistake of marrying and then spend the next half-century trying to keep up appearances. Judgment hinges on an evaluation of Vita's sincerity and the objectivity of her son. If they deluded themselves, this Portrait of a Marriage is worthless. Most of the other books produced by the family are more glib and polished--but whether or not they will be remembered depends on the long-run verdict on the free, civilized form of marriage these two proper Britons pioneered. Whether they did so as a last fling of aristocratic contempt...
...toward a more analytic type of learning at the expense of a large vocabulary of twelve-letter words. Unfortunately, it seems that America's primary means of judging her youth's intelligence has not changed to evaluate more fairly these differently educated minds. The SAT tests a worthless ability-that of memorizing words you will rarely use in high school, college or later life, unless, of course, you are employed writing...
...crude that comes from stripper wells-those that produce 10 bbl. or less per day. Stripper prices have since risen from $3 a bbl. to $8.50 or more; at these prices, the owner of a stripper can make a profit from a well that might otherwise be worthless. These wells now account for 13% of U.S. production...
...neglect of a client's case. And that can often be easily remedied by a telephone call from a local bar association. The offense that most often leads to discipline is also all too unexceptional: stealing a client's money. One Illinois lawyer who gave clients worthless checks and improper shares of personal-injury settlements was disbarred after the state supreme court determined that his actions amounted to misappropriation of funds. Attitudes toward offenses often vary. Tax evasion, for example, prompts little or no action in some states, while bringing virtually automatic disbarment in others. Similarly, a homosexual...
...proportion of the variation in a population ascribably to all genetic differences, predictive heritability is the proportion of variation ascribable to a special fraction of the genetic variation. It is always smaller than the descriptive heritability, and it is very difficult to estimate in any human population. Only one, worthless, attempt to do so is known to me. Now, all of the predictions made about the effects of differential patterns of fertility, assortative mating patterns and environmental assortment depend critically upon the "predictive heritability" and not upon "descriptive heritability." Yet the heritability-mongers continue to make pseudo-scientific predictions with...