Word: worthlessness
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...both monetary and sentimental. Or so my na?ve great aunts assumed. But then came the extramarital affairs, the sordid taped phone calls, the bitter divorce, and the tragic automobile crash. These events not only broke my loved one's hearts, they rendered their costly collections of royal curios virtually worthless...
...York City--all booked as revenue for supposed contracts to renovate distressed housing. When the FBI finally unraveled the scheme, Minkow managed to pay off his Mafia loan sharks ("You can't mess with them," he says), but some $300 million worth of company stock was suddenly worthless, leaving hundreds of investors in the lurch...
...stolen cash. Northern Ireland's monetary system is based on the British pound but uses notes printed by local banks. The theft was so big that Northern Bank decided to withdraw all its cash - more than $560 million - from circulation to make most of the stolen money worthless. The political deficit looks harder to fix. "It's a serious setback, let's face it," Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary, Paul Murphy, told TIME. Orde didn't offer proof but, if true, his accusation means the robbery was planned at the same time the I.R.A. 's political allies in Sinn Fein...
...that anybody believes the crime franchises are worthless. "Believe me," says ABC prime-time entertainment president Stephen McPherson, "we'd love to have CSI. But you've got to play the cards you're dealt, so to speak, and that's what we did." Not surprisingly, CBS chairman Leslie Moonves agrees that the procedural is not dead. "Good shows work," he says. "Bad shows don't. I don't care what type of shows they are." It's unclear whether many will watch ABC's new hits in reruns or syndication, two reasons procedurals are such moneymakers...
...Kaling and Brenda Withers know the truth behind the undeserved success of this A-list duo. Not a dangling participle of their defining piece of work, the Academy-honored script for Good Will Hunting, was written by either of them. It fell from the sky, right into their then worthless laps. So Kaling and Withers wrote a play to expose these facts. They ran it in New York and Los Angeles, to the vociferous praise of critics and audiences. And now they are hitting where the heart is: Matt and Ben’s hometown of Cambridge, Mass. and Damon?...