Word: worthlessness
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...henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel Goldstein, to two years' imprisonment and a $1,000 fine apiece. Their offense: conspiracy and bribery in taking $10,000, plus a promise of $20,000 more, from the proprietors of two electroplating firms in 1955 and 1956 as the price of a worthless guarantee to stop the "labor trouble," i.e., collective-bargaining demands, the firms were having with a United Electrical Workers local. Ahead of Dio loomed further trials on charges of 1) extorting $11,500 from two New York City merchants,, 2) evading federal income taxes, and 3) plotting the 1956 acid...
...around my shoulder, and 'You have got to pay us off because you are mine and I own you. No matter where you are going to move, you are mine.' I was scared to death." In the end Claude paid Chester about $1,400 by cashing worthless checks...
...Force pilot grown wary of the troubled air. As an operational major in Korea, Robert Taylor sent many a comrade off to flaming death; in his rationalized pretense that his lost pals were never even born, he has somehow come to believe that his own life is pointless and worthless. He is not exactly a coward, but he has lost all willingness to risk his guts in the air. With a lucrative smuggling job as its pivot, the scenario spins lengthily around Taylor's prospects of carrying off the chore for a slimy international slob (Martin Gabel). The issue...
Only Mother. Testimony was bitterly sordid on both sides. Joanne called her husband a "drug-sodden wife beater" who so abused her that she "lay down to die." Patiño in turn denounced her as an adulterous, "worthless" woman who "did everything for money," described her excessive drug-taking, demanded that she return his gifts of jewelry. With Mother on hand, Joanne holed up in a lush but lonely ten-room villa in Switzerland's Jura Mountains and waited for her attorneys to wring a financial settlement from Pati...
...effect of storage on potency. Manufacturers may store vaccine under refrigeration for six months after potency testing; once it is released from their coolers, it must be used within six months. All vaccine deteriorates somewhat with time; a batch that barely scrapes by the potency tests might well be worthless before its expiration date. The N.I.H. frankly admits that it has no data on this...