Word: worthlessness
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Also, women frequently have abnormal ECG readings during the classic treadmill test even when their hearts are functioning normally. But before you decide that treadmill tests are worthless, consider the latest research from the WISE study, short for Women's Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation. Data from WISE suggest that false positives in women may be not so much an error as an early warning of a problem, perhaps in the smaller blood vessels, that could become significant in 20 to 30 years, according to Bairey Merz...
...structure upright and stepped inside determined that the maiden was still capable of performing her lethal function. The device was brought to TIME's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything of value. The iron maiden, they thought, was worthless. That may or may not be true, but its working days do seem finally to be through...
...side within view of Uday's first-floor offices in the soccer association. Ironically, the torture device was brought to TIME's attention by a group of looters who had been stripping the compound of anything of value. They had left behind the iron maiden, believing it to be worthless...
...Bizot's account of the fall of Phnom Penh draws its power from an accretion of appalling images, coolly observed: the pavement before the National Bank of Cambodia strewn with bales of newly worthless bank notes; a former Prime Minister's wife trying to throw her baby over the embassy fence, before she is led away to be executed; a prince of the ancien r?gime, wearing his Legion of Honor medal, being turned away from the gate...
...together enough rupees to move his family?his patient wife, Goma, and their two children?from their cramped apartment into a house of their own. This, Ramchandra repeats to himself, will prove his worth to his disdainful but wealthy in-laws, who see him as "a man who was worthless unless he continually moved toward better jobs and bigger houses." He has a mind that clinks like a cash register, cursing every lost rupee. It's through his tutoring that Ramchandra meets Malati, a poor student with a bastard child, who sends her teacher's dull world spinning...