Word: worthlessness
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...sometimes said all that's being bought and sold is merely "access," not government policy itself. But access is worthless if it doesn't affect policy, and experience has taught those who contribute that access works. And to state the obvious: it is unfair and undemocratic for those who buy access to have a bigger voice in government than those...
...licenses are rarely granted, so when an establishment sells an existing license, it can go for as much as $250,000. Licenses for properties outside the "capped zone" are worthless inside the zone...
...smartest guy alive, but I've got no respect for him. If what you described is the real Gates, I feel sorry for him. Someone who is blessed with such intelligence and wealth yet doesn't acknowledge that these gifts come from God is someone who is living a worthless life. ROZA AHMAD Kuantan, Malaysia
...good Jarrett, the usable Jarrett, is the cagey restless artist who warns us of marketing as a waste of energy. This is fine, if somewhat imprudent, advice, and we would do well to listen up. Unfortunately, there is a worthless side to the man as well, the Jarrett who counsels us to beef up our presence. In fact, this bad Jarrett comes dangerously close to contradicting his better self; after all, his presence, (and we take his grunting as evidence of it) is not all that different from self-promotion...
...thousands of losers in Keating's junk-bond schemes. Ramona Jacobs of Burbank, California, a telephone-company assistant manager who testified in one of the civil-fraud cases, says she lost $11,000 when the junk bonds she was talked into buying at Lincoln Savings turned out to be worthless. (Most of the purchasers have since recovered about 70 cents on the dollar.) The loss, she says, delayed desperately needed medical treatment for her daughter Michelle. "The people at his bank told me it was safe; they said there was nothing to worry about...