It was the ultimate alchemy to take junk securities, package them and, voilà, they're gilt-edged.
Of course, the ultimate remedy is junking the monstrous income tax code and replacing it with a simple flat tax.
For the ultimate in style, mount the junk drawer's old front as a swing-down or swing-up cover for the stowed keyboard (a modification that may not be easily reversible, and beware of interference with legs or the keyboard tray).
Clone High, USA introduces a character called G-Man, a fictitious clone of Gandhi, who wears dangly earrings, eats junk food and is the ultimate party animal.
JEAN TINGUELY'S "Homage to New York" was billed as the ultimate homemade gadget -- a towering contraption composed of found junk, dismembered bicycles, dismantled musical instruments, glass bottles, a meteorological balloon and electric motors in questionable condition.
The problem is the junk food life that has taken over our ultimate sanctuary, our minds.
Whether it's about politicians denying wiretaps or husbands trying to prove they're not throwing their junk around town, many Serbians revere these tests as ultimate truth.
Re "Orbiting Junk, Once a Nuisance, Is Now a Threat" (Feb. 6): Well, the ultimate legacy of engineering, science and technology is upon us.
Friday afternoon, Standard & Poor's unexpectedly cut Countrywide's debt ratings to junk level, saying the disclosure in the filing brought a "new level of uncertainty as to the ultimate legal status of Countrywide's creditors after the merger".
