Word: worthlessness
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...nations where inflation is high and where there are few credible banking institutions--from Latin America to Africa--people save and conduct business in $100 bills. And with the U.S. issuing new $100 bills, many abroad are worrying that the ones they already have are about to become worthless...
...done transplants for advanced breast cancer. "We have a protocol to treat breast cancer," UCLA's Rosen said. The panel, he cautioned, had agreed only that such transplants should not be covered as a general rule. "That didn't mean we necessarily have all agreed that this is a worthless thing to be doing," he said. "I think that could be a real problem...
...reduction flowing back into the pockets of all Americans? No. The tax reductions were, in part, a sop to the G.O.P. moralists who bemoan the dissolution of the family. The "family" tax cuts were aimed at people raising children, but not at all people raising children. The credits are worthless to the families in which a third of American children live, because those families don't earn enough to pay income tax. Those families and their employers pay plenty--15.3%--in payroll taxes, but the G.O.P. tax credit doesn't help them there...
...economically or otherwise. President Mubarak, preoccupied with restoring Egypt's diplomatic ties with the Arab nations and reasserting its role as the leader of the Arab world, largely avoided any political move that could potentially promote the peace treaty his predecessor had signed. Hence, the peace treaty remained a worthless piece of paper that never changed the policies of the Egyptian government or altered its attitude towards Israel and the Israelia...
...involve Europe's new democracies as well as our NATO allies." Given the size and cost of the planned commitment, -- about 20,000 U.S. troops and $1.5 billion by Administration estimates -- the President will almost certainly need the GOP leaders' support. "There is no doubt that the agreements are worthless without the American troops," says TIME's James Graff in Dayton. "Clinton has his work...