Word: worthlessness
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...affair with James Hewitt, who authorized a tell-all book. The interview also revealed that she has mastered current pop-psych speak: alluding to other women who harm themselves physically, she said, "I'm able to understand completely where they're coming from." Though she claims to have felt worthless, she finally had the courage of her frailties. As usual, she put her message across: the television audience averaged a record 21 million, and polls showed that the public supported her overwhelmingly...
PepsiCo may also be contributing to forced labor; in order to convert its worthless Burmese revenue into hard currency, PepsiCo buys agricultural goods in Burma and sells them on the international market. These goods may be the products of forced labor farms that are common in Burma, but PepsiCo will not acknowledge its sources. Other companies have pulled out of Burma by now; Levi-Strauss, for example, pulled out in 1992, saying that "it is not possible to do business in [Burma] without directly supporting the military government and its pervasive violations of human rights...
...through a safety report in which Northeast was required to demonstrate to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the plant's network of cooling systems would function even if the most important one failed. Instead, the company had analyzed the loss of a far less critical system. The report was worthless, the NRC hadn't noticed, and the consequences could be dire. If Millstone lost its primary cooling system while the full core was in the pool, Galatis told Betancourt, the backup systems might not handle the heat. "The pool could boil," he said. "We'd better report this...
...laurels with a fat production deal somewhere--the traditional way in which Hollywood takes care of its own. Instead, at 54, Diller has chosen to put his credibility on the line and build his very own empire more or less from scratch. "This is either a worthwhile or worthless proving ground," he says, though it is not quite self-evident, of his efforts to cobble together a new broadcast TV network from a collection of end-of-the-dial stations that in total reach roughly 35% of the country's viewing audience. At this point it would be America...
...note revives bad memories. In the winter of 1991, when then Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov suddenly announced that citizens had three days to exchange their rubles for a newly printed currency, they could turn in only the equivalent of one month's salary. The old rubles were declared worthless, and millions of Russians lost their life savings. Then in 1993 the government made another sudden decree, which meant that Russians again had to exchange a limited amount of old money for new, with the transaction stamped in passports to prevent repeat visits...