Despite his name, Cartier was no jeweller: he had found worthless quartz crystals and fool's gold.
The otherwise worthless piece of paper in your wallet conveys value because of government decree.
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With knowledge, however, otherwise worthless matter and radiation turns into petroleum, microchips, and radio spectrum.
"I was convinced I was worthless, unlovable and a fraud, " says Gerson, now 39.
An average contractor can at least fix your stoop, but an average money manager is worthless.
Sixty-two percent have friends who have been called stupid, worthless or ugly by their dates.
Almost worthless pieces of paper, many bearing addresses like the Cayman Islands, Switzerland and South Africa.
If the option expires worthless, the option premium is extra money in your pocket.
Dust on a lens could cause the entire output of the plant to be worthless.
To be sure, some deals may pay off eventually, but others will probably end up worthless.
All the data in the world is worthless until you make use of it.
The local currency is worthless, so swathes of public services have ceased to function.
He also said that the testimony of three witnesses for the prosecution was "unreliable" and "worthless".
If it doesn't get paid, a tenfold jump in Trada's online spending is worthless.
Weak, volatile and eventually worthless money has been the bane of countries throughout history.
May CDS holders will now see the insurance as a worthless piece of paper.
Debates over literary forms or outlying heroics are completely worthless when it comes to witness.
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The end result is fairly worthless, if not for the entertainment value of it all.
But last summer, it wrote off virtually all of it, essentially conceding it was worthless.
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"Now it's completely worthless and it's amazing how it's happened, " he told the BBC.
Last week, I wrote about the fact that most credit card points are effectively worthless.
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John Holland warned Koppel in their phone conversation that the GAO Report was worthless.
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It, in essence, taxes options as current income even though they might expire worthless.
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Once a year, on Guy Fawkes Day, it tossed the "worthless" canvases into a bonfire.
The strategist responsible for the trade keeps the premium if the puts expire worthless at expiration.
If they do, they'll find out that the conventional wisdom is pretty much worthless.
Many a clever gizmo produced by well-endowed Japanese corporate labs has turned out to be worthless.
Panic is an understandable reaction for buyers who suddenly find that their insurance contracts are worthless.
It's the deluge of near-worthless paper assets that buries us for years to come.
The downside is that the stock is worthless until the company gets bought or goes public.
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