Word: worthlessness
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...ladies." The eventual losers included some of the hitherto most conservatively managed money groups in the country-including university endowment funds, whose trustees were urged to pursue "unconventional investing" by no less influential a benefactor than the president of the Ford Foundation. Result: many funds got stuck with worthless paper...
Carved Toggles. Often in the West, miniatures compel the worthless gawking one reserves for Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peach-stone kitsch. Not in Japan, where the image and the scale were one-partly by a happy fluke of social pressure. The Imperial sumptuary laws forbade merchants and samurai to wear excessively rich garments, so male vanity expressed itself in three special kinds of objects: inros, the tiny compartmented cases for carrying seals, or later medicine; netsukes, the carved toggles that fastened the inros to one's sash; and tsubas, or sword guards. The amount of craft lavished...
...addition to their viciousness, the columnists also have a predilection for foolishness as in their daily discoveries this summer that McGovern is not after all a hair-shirted secetic, but a Democratic Party politician not too different from the rest. Feasting on such obvious and worthless information, we roll along toward October, with the columnists still yapping their way through assessments and re-assessments of candidate McGovern: like dogs, snapping at the air as they pursue their own tails...
...Rowdyman is nearly worthless. None of the characters is interesting: none of the acting is particularly distinguished. Generally an actor cannot be blamed for the lines that he must deliver, but Gordon Pinsent, in the lead role of Will Cole the Rowdyman, forfeited that excuse. He wrote the script...
...heads of public utilities who he said are getting richer and richer at the people's expense. And absentee landlords also came under fire: "The only way to lick the rent problem is to build housing for the people. Then the people will say. 'To hell with your worthless firetraps, because the City and state are building housing...