Word: worthlessness
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...northwest Bosnian village of Kozarac, 50 miles from their hometown, life is hard for Zamaklaar's mother, father, grandmother, sister and brother. They have no income, and local Serbian dinar notes, one of three currencies circulating in Bosnia, are all but worthless. "They don't know anybody here. They just sit in the house all day and think about what happened to them," said Zamaklaar...
Every rodent must die when the experiment it is a part of ends. According to veterinarian Stuart E. Wiles, commissioner of laboratory animals for the City of Cambridge, there is no alternative. Once an animal is used in a study, it is considered worthless for further experimentation, Wiles says...
...sneering cynic, contemptuous of Mozart's "pretty" music, and the record company huckster, who likes "pretty" music because it sells, offer us two sides of the same worthless coin. They both depend on Forman's film and is assassination of Mozart the genius, the child prodigy whose music was great because it was the work of a great man. The film liberates us from what may be an illusionary image of Mozart, but leaves us with no reason to judge the music as worthwhile. The notion that the "voice of God" resides in the notes of this music carries little...
...night. The3rd century Roman moved to the Aisne, northeast ofParis, and legend holds that he gave away shoes tothe poor. Some suggest that this Robin Hood offootware even stole his materials from the rich.In Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers,published in 1883, William Edward Winks writesthat "such tales are worthless," but honors St.Crispin as one of the first in a long line ofdistinguished shoemakers...
Moreover, while the ruble was nearly worthless at home, it was totally without value abroad. No banker or investor wanted to hold an artificial, or "soft," currency. The ruble was an impediment to foreign trade and contributed to the isolation of the U.S.S.R...