Word: worthlessness
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THESE criticisms are not meant to imply that the survey is worthless--statistics are a valuable, if unreliable, measure of student opinion. But as any undergraduate can attest, students and their lives are not reducible to numbers or measurement. A survey on the quality of College life can only begin to assess the qualitative problems they face...
...Fleer offers a team sticker for your lunchbox and Donruss has pieces of a 63-part Stan Musiaal jigsaw puzzle (last year's was Roberto Clemente). I've never been excited enough about the idea to put one of the puzzles together. Score, for all its pluses, includes a worthless card containing trivia that doesn't deserve a card...
...needs, at last, to throw off the myths that enthrall it. Not all the music that is worth hearing is being heard. New music is not automatically fearsome nor unplayed works from the past intrinsically worthless. The media- fueled system that turns performers into celebrities needs serious re- examination; The Tonight Show and Madison Square Garden ought not to be venues that certify stars...
...last summer when an investigation uncovered Yugoslavia's biggest financial scandal since World War II. Led in part by the country's newly aggressive press, the probe found that Agrokomerc, a giant food-processing firm based in the republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, had issued up to $500 million in worthless IOUs to 63 Yugoslav banks and other enterprises. The revelations forced the country's Vice President, Hamdija Pozderac, to resign after the Belgrade newspaper Borba and other publications linked him to the scandal. Agrokomerc Chief Executive Fikret Abdic is in jail awaiting trial. At least six top Communist officials...
...guess I see your point, Reverend," I said. "I should be grateful. But all my savings were in stocks, so now I'm ruined. All those certificates are now just so much worthless paper...