Word: worthlessness
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...bargain reached after the Gulf War. A signature on a piece of paper is meaningless. What matters is the character of the person signing it. History repeats itself. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan seems as naive to me as Chamberlain. Annan came back from Baghdad with a worthless piece of paper. PAUL MONTAGUE Sydney...
...millennial apocalypse vividly come true in Coupland's hypercolor prose. The six friends become the only survivors in a landscape where "endless cars and trucks and minivans sit on road shoulders harboring cargoes of rotted skeletons." In the future, all humanity has collapsed in sleepy death, money has become worthless, and the endless days are tracked only by the clock on Wendy's PowerBook. "Tennis rackets silently unstring inside dark dry closets...
...famous Town Meeting that CNN broadcast from Columbus, Ohio, last Wednesday, when an unhappy trio of Administration foreign-policy advisers squirmed while cranks and crackpots fumed and bellowed, was by any measure a disaster--catastrophic as diplomacy, unlucky as public relations and worthless as a means of preparing the country for war. That's too bad, of course, but look on the bright side: the Ohio calamity may do away with "national town meetings" once...
...national dialogue on race is a bunch of garbage. It's a worthless touchy-feely exercise that isn't going to accomplish anything. It's another poorly conceived liberal enterprise that will only dredge up guilt and animosity to no positive...
According to Ducey, depression occurs when people internalize a specific loss, blaming themselves for problems that are beyond their personal control. For example, he says a depressed individual might feel that they are "a worthless person...because they broke up with their boyfriend or didn't go out this weekend...