Word: worthlessness
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From Francis Bacon to the Era of Research & Development, Roszak sees science "turning people and nature into mere, worthless things." Science has led to "the politics of technocratic elitism." Worst of all, it has despoiled the human imagination...
...North Atlantic run, by so-called "charter consolidators," also known as "body brokers." Recently the CAB began a drive to clip their wings, and it has forced many out of business. In the process, it has stranded thousands of tourists who held return tickets that had become worthless...
...partly because the flight left not from Paris but from Frankfurt, Germany, to which Ress was hauled by bus. A few days after he arrived in New York, he called at the travel agency's office and found that it was closed up, and that his voucher was worthless...
...President hardened his choice in a final weekend at Camp David. "If we turn tail now, America's commitments will be worthless," he told an aide. "The prestige of the presidency would hit rock bottom." On Saturday he ordered Laird to prepare for mining. He began working on a television speech that would explain the move. Writing it almost alone, he paused for telephone calls to his campaign manager, John Mitchell, and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller...
Traditionally in China, sons were desired as heirs and daughters thought worthless. "We have changed our attitudes about having sons," said Yu Shi-teh, my interpreter in Shanghai. "Now the state provides for our old age, and we no longer look to our children to care for us." Asked what career aspirations they held for their sons, Chinese invariably answered that "the choice is up to the state. Whatever will serve the state will be good for my child...