Word: worthlessness
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...such thing as rape." But Jake Ehrlich admits that jury picking is basically a risky proposition. "It's like picking a wife," he says. "You don't know where you're going to wind up." Such uncertainty has convinced many lawyers that preconceived theories are almost worthless. "Generally speaking," says Harold R. Medina, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, "it's impossible to learn much about a man by questioning him. Prospective jurors lie like hell...
...surface, Europe's acute labor shortage hands unions a powerful lever to force management to give ground on wages. European governments hope that labor leaders will consider the overall interests of their national economies and hold demands within limits. German workers, haunted by memories of the worthless inflated marks of the 1920s, already show remarkable restraint, even though they are in one of the tightest of labor markets. The French government is having some success in its campaign to make any wage boost seem unpatriotic. In Britain, Italy and The Netherlands, however, union leaders appear more determined to press...
...principal criticism of Dr. Graham is the oversimplification of the gospel which makes his pronouncements about contemporary social issues practically worthless. For example, I waited all week long to hear what he would say about two important issues on the campus today: race and sexual morality. Concerning the race question, he said that we should change our hearts and was critical of demonstrations. And to the Boston press he made the statement that there was more genuine understanding of the race issue in the south than in the north. But never a discussion of the meaning of social justice...
...foolish for the Council to try to compete with the CRIMSON on bringing attention to minor problems. With few exceptions, the Council has allowed itself to fall into a "me-too" role, picking up issues from the CRIMSON and presenting short, generally worthless statements, weeks after a CRIMSON news story or editorial. In any competition on minor matters the Council is doomed to lose, both because its deliberations, often necessarily picayune, are public, and because the CRIMSON automatically commands a wider audience...
...superlative and the absolute. But these extravagant claims tend to make a reader dismiss the book completely when the boasts are not fulfilled. And while the book is not the key to Shakespeare's life and works that Rowse would have us believe, it is hardly the worthless drivel that his harsher critics profess...