Word: worthlessness
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...March of that year. But the apparent de-escalation has amounted merely to a clever shift in emphasis, combined with an adept appraisal of how far the war could be extended and prolonged without a complete collapse of the political economy at home. The beginning of the near-worthless talks and an end to the fruitless, politically detrimental bombing of the North shattered a growing and powerful anti-war movement in America; but, since then, the bombers have merely moved south, defoliating the countryside, herding millions of Vietnamese into teeming, overcrowded urban centers, undermining the rural base...
After paying about $50 for film and film processing, plus the cost of renting or buying a camera, a student could be paying as much as $350. Moreover, if the new film labs don't open in time for immediate use, the course might be rendered worthless...
...destruction of the economies thef nominally represented, and by five years of unrestricted war credits (financed with astronomical tax rates and wage controls which held U.S. income levels at their 1939 depression low). Otherwise, those currencies, subject to a 200 per cent rate of inflation in 1946-48 were worthless as instruments of trade or investment. For a brief, terrifying time it looked as if the world economy would revert to its pre-war depression state, complete with a breakdown in world-wide trade and investment...
...read the frankly ridiculous letter of Miss Linda Eldredge [May 11]. What broken promises, which worthless agreements, and just which reforms is she referring to? And what does she know about world politics, strategy, history, social patterns? And just how are things "getting worse each day"? Did she ever take the time to find out just how much better a place the world is today for just how many more people than it was a mere 50 years ago? What progress there has been in countless fields from medicine to farming to justice? I doubt it. But she wants...
Violence? I abhor it. Somehow throughout all the broken promises and worthless agreements and "reforms," I still abhor it and condemn it. We cannot change this world through violence-we can only end it. But I wonder if people will work in any other way. The young people-my brothers -I see them growing ugly and irrational and I hear them saying things that are not different from Johnson's words and justifications about Viet Nam. Our parents hate us, our politicians desert us, our hopes simply grew old and died...