Dust on a lens could cause the entire output of the plant to be worthless.
So any music library amassed like that would be worthless when the owner dies.
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Depending on what Independent put up as collateral, it may be worthless now.
Hire wrong and all the self-service in the world will be worthless.
That protection could conceivably be worthless if Lehman fails to pay up.
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Spool forward to Monday, and the UK's best known games retailer Game Group has told its investors their shares may be worthless as it struggles to survive.
It would be worthless not because you are a bad person or because you had some sort of dastardly ill intent, but because it was built on a flatly inaccurate impression of objective reality.
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In a statement to mark World Aids Day, Oxfam said the pledge made by governments in June to increase the number of people receiving HIV treatment to 15 million by 2015 would be worthless without additional resources.
Oh, and while you are doing that the Fed is going to print massive amounts of dollars (far, far more than they are now) and destroy the value of the dollar, so your Texas pensions will be worthless.
However, if this sort of manoeuvre is finally ruled to be legal, the rules designed to protect minority shareholders will be made worthless since it will always be easy for majority owners to frustrate them by handing out lots of small blocks of shares to their friends.
But his detractors include art critic Julian Spalding, who recently suggested Hirst's pieces had "no artistic content" and would soon be "worthless financially".
If they knew the other side, and that I have this website, all the stuff that think about me now would be absolutely worthless.
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Tim Marshall, a senior lecturer in epidemiology at Birmingham University, with much experience of setting up scientific studies, said that the research was likely to be "worthless".
In the Citigroup lawsuit, for example, lawyers needed to show that bank executives acted with scienter, or guilty knowledge, when they loaded the bank up with soon-to-be-worthless derivatives that were a byproduct of their mortgage-backed securities business.
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Meanwhile their shares, which would normally be the most worthless securities in a default, suggest that the firms still have substantial value.
The Countryside Alliance says that unless the whole process is simplified, the digital divide will keep growing and the money pledged will be all but worthless.
What would you call debt that will be never repaid, except worthless?
And, since each individual point you earn is all but worthless, it can be difficult to tell whether the reward was worth whatever extra spending you may have engaged in to secure it.
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The Revenue Agent allowed the loss, concluding the loss would either be deductible as a bad debt or worthless stock loss. 1 The statute of limitations for assessment under I.
When Wall Street went into meltdown last fall, the bottom fell out of the exotic-instrument market, and many of Harvard's private-equity investments proved to be unsalable--that is, worthless, at least temporarily.
Mr Tsvangirai has sought to secure their loyalty by promising that civil servants, many of whom have been on strike for months, would be paid in foreign currency instead of worthless Zimbabwean dollars.
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They subsequently passed a law that in essence taxed options as current income, even though they could not be exercised for several years and might expire worthless.
Those poor folks were told in 2010 that they could not withdraw their funds from HCP even as it was not doing well unless they wished to be paid out in LightSquared stock, now worthless.
The JP Morgan analyst who said last week that MMR was worthless, as in worth zero, might be eating crow even faster than those with a different view had hoped.
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Your broker may even be willing to help you unload a stock that is nearly worthless at minimal or no cost.
As a result of exploding credit card issuance, products could be bought (with funds borrowed at usurious rates) that would become worthless long before they were ever paid off.
In the case of John Ramig, however, whether his advances to his corporation represented debt or equity would mean the difference between taking an ordinary worthless debt deduction under Section 166 when the debt went bad, or be stuck with a capital loss upon liquidation in some future year.
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To be sure, some deals may pay off eventually, but others will probably end up worthless.
If you make a personal nonbusiness loan and you are unable to collect the amount, you may be able to claim a deduction for the amount for the year that the debt becomes completely worthless.
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