Word: worthlessness
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...make the situation even more unwholesome, Eisenhower indicates he will keep Wilson on, stock or not, and the Attorney-General and his assistants are now busily seeking a way to circumvent the present law. If found, the loophole will make a good law worthless. Some have suggested Wilson disqualify himself when G.M. contracts come up for discussions. With G.M. the largest Defense contractor, this would make Wilson more than fifty percent impotent...
...tastes like rather coarse beef; cat like rabbit, only better." The camp had its rare saints, and one was the Anglican padre, Noel Duckworth. Putting on a winning smile, he would call to some brutish guard: "Come here, you charming little lump of garbage, and buy this perfectly worthless pen." The proceeds always went for food for all prisoners. Day in & day out, the padre conducted an average of three funerals as the men died of dysentery, beriberi, malaria and simple starvation...
Influenza vaccines today are often made worthless because the virus changes its nature and defeats them. The trick is to beat the virus to the draw, and have a suitable vaccine ready before a virulent strain can start an epidemic. "This is why," says Burnet quietly, "even the most academic-seeming investigations, such as mine, may one day become a matter of life and death...
Five days after Pearl Harbor, the SEC banned all trading in Japanese bonds and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue ruled such issues to be worthless. Many U.S. investors who held 14 issues of Japanese dollar bonds with a face value of $76 million lost hope of ever being repaid; some wrote them off as losses in tax returns. But in November 1950, SEC permitted trading to resume. Speculators drove up the prices. One issue (1930 dollar 5½%) rose from 60 on the opening day to 95½ last July...
...second big problem is national affiliation. Strong alumni pressure has forced all but two of the Yale fraternities to maintain virtually worthless affiliation with the national chapters. Much of the needed cash is sent out in national dues--few fraternity members feel the money well-spent...