Word: worthlessness
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...would serve to prove we are not totally greedy-and then, too, the dollar should retain some worth. I suppose, otherwise we might reach an economic Utopia before America is psychologically prepared. Who knows what sort of mass delirium might be triggered if everything could be bought with absolutely worthless dollars...
Some specialists consider such tactics destructive. In an American Psychiatric Association study of Synanon and other therapeutic communities, five drug experts observed that if addiction is partly the result of low selfesteem, "one can wonder whether the most appropriate corrective experience is to persuade the person of his worthless-ness." Members of Delancey Street, however, defend their rules on the grounds that they provide an opportunity to let off steam, teach humility and prepare the way for a kind of rebirth by erasing an addict's old image of himself...
...trouble came in two parts. The first was an offer by the owners to sub mit salary disputes to binding arbitration. Players Association Executive Director Marvin Miller dismissed that as "all propaganda, Madison Avenue stuff. You read the fine print and you find that the proposal is worthless." Among other things, he objected to the stipulation that a player cannot seek arbitration two years in a row. Explained Miller: "If the player wins arbitration one year, the next they could take it out of his hide...
...salesman with virtually no memories of his childhood to comment on split-screen images of himself. "It's like me looking into the past," the salesman said, "and I get smaller and smaller until I disappear into nothingness." Then he remembered that as a child he had felt worthless, different from others, and ignored at home. Berger believes that this insight into early feelings of insignificance eventually helped the salesman to shed some of his shyness...
...Because the Communist enemy is so evil for Kelman, it follows that America must be virtuous, in small ways as well as substantial ones. Witness: Kelman enters an East German supermart and the place looks dull. "I longed for something all my righteous ideas taught me to believe was worthless or even insidious--bright American packages," he laments...