By 1933, Adams was writing in the New York Times of the way the American dream had been hijacked: "Throughout our history, the pure gold of this vision has been heavily alloyed with the dross of materialistic aims.
He crossly turned down Germany's leading television prize, in protest at the dross on the airwaves.
He used his deep knowledge of complex financial instruments—he was part of a group at the bank that pioneered credit derivatives to steer the investment bank away from the mortgage-backed dross that destroyed others' balance-sheets.
Google's success stems from its uncanny ability to sort useful web pages from dross.
I'd argue that ease of use, the frictionless click as you scroll down the page, could make it more valuable: it creates more dross to spin into gold.From a comment by Tzimisces,I think an "interesting" tab would be more helpful.
There are some excellent titles in among the dross: CEO biographies that capture something essential about business, useful prescriptions for restoring companies to health, even self-help books that help make sense of the contradictory pressures of modern corporate life.
And many websites have emerged on which customers can buy drugs and review their purchases, exposing vendors who peddle dross.
"Coleman Young", she sums up, "had achieved his dream Black Power in one city but it had turned to dross around him .The experience of Atlanta, the "city that was too busy to hate", was less disastrous, but still discouraging.
Some predict a future of fewer booksellers, fewer publishers and vast amounts of self-published dross, easily available on that brand new Kindle.Emily Bobrow: deputy books and arts editor, The Economist.
In this one, it has been used to unburden UBS of up to $60 billion of dross, which will be managed by the Swiss central bank.In economic terms, the bad bank may be little different from the type of backstop used by Citi; in both cases, toxic holdings are isolated.
The brief "golden age" turned to dross during the deprivations and deaths of the 1980s war with Iran, followed by 13 years of the most comprehensive sanctions ever imposed.
