With the Paulson plan, the taxpayer ends up owning toxic assets of questionable value.
They are taken by professionals, executives and managers like cod liver oil, necessary, distasteful and of questionable value.
Obsession, at the cost of human lives, is of more questionable value.
Not since the Middle Ages, when monks peddled indulgences to the guilt-ridden at Eastertide, has there been such demand for a product of such questionable value.
They are also, from a competitive standpoint, of questionable value.
One is that a product can now claim to be high in long-chain omega-3s, yet be of questionable value because it also contains high levels of omega-6 fatty acids.
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The Simpson Review, commissioned by the Local Government Minister, showed that replicating functions and services across the 22 Welsh local authorities creates unnecessary duplication and is of questionable value.
Education director at Civitas, Anastasia de Waal, who has campaigned for the information to be made public told the TES that academic subjects were being replaced with qualifications of "extremely questionable value".
Recently, the Democrats added a new stipulation: the agreements should only be approved if tied to the renewal of an expensive job training program for displaced American workers, which is of questionable value.
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First Jersey chief, Robert Brennan, and his 1, 000-man sales staff peddle the stock of companies that exist but are of questionable economic value.
But despite its questionable predictive value, the game of setting price targets is a lucrative one for Wall Street because it makes people want to trade boosting commission revenue.
Rather than automate the year-end performance management process (which is widely hated and questionable in value), Work.com is designed to be used by employees, teams, and managers on a regular basis for goal setting, communication of goals, recognition, rewards, and yes, ultimately, performance appraisals.
Now you might think this would be a very odd way to restore confidence in either the finances of an important bank or of a rather important eurozone government: one load of government IOUs of questionable intrinsic value would be swapped for a dubious right to future profits in a bank whose foundations have been crumbling.
In the case of Coolidge's poker-playing dogs, the aesthetic value may be questionable--but then, that's not really the point.
Without ownership, however, it is questionable whether shares have any true value.
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The value of NFC to merchants is questionable.
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There is no procedure for writing down the value of such loans, no matter how questionable their worth.
And whether seaborne commerce would attract the kind of high-value-added activities that Mr Brunetta wants is also questionable.
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