Word: worthlessness
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...against Blue Chip by 11,000 gas stations, charging the company with misrepresentation and monopoly, hit the headlines simultaneously with news on the failure of another stamp outfit, Thrifty Green. Confusing the stories, women stormed Blue Chip redemption centers in the unwarranted fear that their stamps would soon be worthless. The run at one Sacramento center was such that security guards had to hold off the mobs while a fresh supply of merchandise could be trucked...
...view of America, Mrs. Cooper describes it as follows: "American scholarship is condemned as prolix, overearnest and trivial. The only genuine art form is jazz, produced by an oppressed minority. Most Americans are bores; nice people, quite often, but boring nonetheless. A first degree from an American university is worthless; an American Ph.D. degree in any nonscientific subject is laughable...
...perhaps does not realize that this would invalidate a number of psychological tests. If an experimenter asks a subject for permission to deceive his sense of perception, the subject will go into the experiment looking for the trick. This obviously distorts his normal reactions and makes his observations worthless. Explicit consent is essential only for potentially dangerous experiments...
Salesman had its flaws. The scenes between the agonized Loman sons-alternately hating and loving the man who had filled them full of ballooning, worthless dreams-were edgy rather than sharp. And television's code blunted many of the play's sharpest lines (even "By God, I was rich" became "By George, I was rich"), needlessly sacrificing Miller's most formidable faculty: language...
...prepare a lecture in advance, refuse to be bothered answering a student's question (and too often cannot answer it anyway), and have no interest in whether or not the students are actually learning. As a result, the saving and sacrificing to finance a college education often seems worthless...