Word: worthlessness
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...Submitting written statements would be ineffective. [It] seems like a high school thing to do," said council member Andy F. Chao '92, who said he was absent for personal reasons. Chao called the proposal "a good idea in theory, worthless in practicality...
...former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. "In fact, many executives expressed their confidence by taking their entire bonus in the form of equity." Among them: chief executive Frederick Joseph, who in December elected to take his $2 million-plus bonus in Drexel stock, which now is virtually worthless...
...time all those forces were pushed back or negotiated away, the Soviets' hastily nationalized and collectivized economy was a shambles. By 1920 industrial production had dropped to about 15% of the prewar level; runaway inflation had made the ruble nearly worthless; foreign trade had plummeted to almost zero. Peasants whose crops were requisitioned for the cities began hiding their harvests or not harvesting at all, and in 1921 famine killed uncounted millions...
...mounted the first full test of Moscow's new policy. At the beginning of 1989, Polish party leader Wojciech Jaruzelski told his Central Committee that "fundamental changes" were needed to rescue the economy from work stoppages, inflation, debt, shortages and the burden of a near worthless currency. Having suppressed Solidarity for seven years and jailed or driven underground many of its leaders, the party needed the union's help. During several weeks of so-called round-table discussions with the government, Walesa and other union leaders concluded that it was Poland that needed their help. They traded a tacit pledge...
...PBHA does engage in the worthless endorsement game, they can look forward to driving away a number of volunteers who would have been interested in doing something about poverty, homelessness and racism...