Word: worthlessness
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...stop until his last, the cries went up--from an old woman wagging her finger in the President's face: "Yes, there's food in the stores, but who can afford it?"; from a young factory worker: "Where are our salaries?"; from a middle-aged electrician: "Our savings are worthless!" More quietly, a well-dressed man said, "All we ever get from you are promises, but nothing ever happens...
...Hans Hogerzeil, of the WHO's Action Program on Essential Drugs, says the problem is widespread: 45% of donations received in 1994 by the WHO office in Zagreb, for instance, were either worthless or expired. In Sudan aid workers have received contact-lens solution and appetite stimulants--a bizarre contribution to a country experiencing famine. Health workers in Rwanda are still sorting through crates of "odorless" garlic pills, ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn...
...churned out more than $1.8 million in phony money orders and other financial instruments, according to federal indictments. They used those to defraud banks, credit-card companies and mail-order businesses. A favorite tactic was to use liens filed against the property of government officials and others, then issue worthless money orders or checks using that property as collateral. Some unwary businesses, car dealerships, even the irs, have accepted them. Meanwhile, the Freemen have allegedly harassed local officials and brazenly taught weekend seminars in fraud and larceny to hundreds of out-of-state visitors. The attendees then spread...
Since Burma's money is virtually worthless, according to the February 16 issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review, the profit PepsiCo makes through their sales in the country must be reinvested in Burmese produce which is then sold on the international market...
...Crimson Cash is marked by a bowed head, a furtive look at one's worthless ID and a mournful glance at the chocolate orgasm brownies in the Loker Commons coffee house, woefully out of reach...