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Wally Pansing, the student who authored the original resolution, said that the alternative motion which passed was completely worthless. "The teeth were taken away," he said...
Before my senior year, being Class Marshal seemed like the sort of worthless thing that people would only do to boost their ego or to pad their resume. But yesterday, as I talked to the woman from the alumni office, I suddenly realized that I do need something impressive enough to bump "Leverett House Film Society" from my resume, and, since there is no Spanish Club at Harvard, being Class Marshal might not be that bad an idea...
...financial follies. After the former owner of California's bankrupt Lincoln Savings and Loan was indicted on 42 counts of criminal fraud and was unable to raise the $5 million bail, police handcuffed and jailed him. California alleges that Keating bilked investors who bought $250 million of now virtually worthless junk bonds. The state's charges were the latest in a flood of legal actions against the disgraced businessman. Overall, taxpayers will have to pay more than $2 billion to clean up the mess left by Lincoln's collapse, one of the costliest in the nation...
AFTER a year of hemming and hawing on undergraduate women's issues, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson last week finally endorsed the concept of a women's center on campus. It was an important symbolic move. But it will be a worthless one unless Wilson acts quickly to back up her rhetoric with the will and the resources needed to make a women's center a reality...
Sometimes discovered in conjunction with crude, natural gas -- a colorless mixture of methane and other hydrocarbons -- was long considered worthless and burned off at the wellhead. In the postwar years, its price was so tightly regulated by the Federal Government that producers were discouraged from searching for the fuel. After prices were deregulated in the 1980s, the low cost of petroleum helped keep gas prices depressed. Wholesale natural gas sells for about $1.50 per 1,000 cu. ft., the equivalent of $9 per bbl. for oil. Observes T. Boone Pickens, a major oil-and-gas producer: "At that price, there...