Word: worthlessness
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Typical Orientation Week conversations commonly use this technique of seizing upon any obscure connection as a way of keeping the conversation going. In this game of "Do you know...?" the goal is to find common ground, as worthless as the ground itself...
...talented in other ways, has absolutely no understanding of the financial markets. I once lent him some money -- to eat, as I understood it -- and found out later that he used it to buy options on a stock someone had told him about. Needless to say, the options expired worthless...
...problem. "Choose me!" shouts my ill-fated "TED spread," a bet in May that the unusually narrow spread between Treasury bills and Eurodollars would widen. (It narrowed even further. My cost in brokerage commissions alone was enough to buy a couple of Congressmen.) "Choose me!" shout all my expired-worthless puts and calls...
...Northwestern timber towns, the local people just stare and glare. Many of them recognize him from homemade wanted posters hung in sawmills or have seen his name on banners with slogans like KISS MY AX, ANDY. Lumberjacks deride Kerr as Andy Cur or Andy Cull (a term for a worthless log). And after putting away a few beers, some loggers have even called him from tavern telephones with death threats...
Forty years later: A gold watch, a generous monthly retirement check, a healthy investment portfolio. Retirement should be good. It had better be, after spending your entire working life in a worthless job that could never fulfill...