Each item was rated on a 5-point Likert scale anchored at 1 to 5 (strongly agree to strongly disagree, very likely to very unlikely, very beneficial to very harmful, very worthwhile to very worthless, very good to very bad, very enjoyable to very boring, very relaxing to very stressful, strongly satisfied to strongly unsatisfied) Table 2. * Deleted items in the final version.
This ties in with the major theme of the film in Winterson's eyes, whereby "Duncan, Gabriel, Miss Bead and Miss Quim all find something valuable where they least expected it, Rex Goodyear finds that the things we value are very often worthless".
If so, there could be too much risk in not selling the business, since businesses can go from valuable to worthless very quickly.
Wrote one: "My age (59) leaves me feeling worthless, VERY old, and isolated from the work force - with little chance of finding employment".
Sometimes, inventories build up on statements and are worthless or very hard to get rid of in real life--if you had $400,000 worth of 1980s computers, they'd be kind of hard to get rid of at the retail value.
As with any year, it was possible for a stock to go from very valuable to virtually worthless in one year -- if it turned out that there was massive fraud.
It would be treated as an expense over the period until the option became vested -- that is, until it could be exercised -- but the value shown as an expense would not change even if the option was clearly very valuable, or virtually worthless, by the time vesting occurred.
Isn't it ironic that these technologies, which have employed electronic production and manipulation to make digital pictures and sounds ubiquitous, have through that very process made them totally worthless in terms of credibility?
Let's not be enticed by immediate gratification of shiny objects that prove worthless and useless very fast.
Apart from the fact that these fuels are limited, and that transporting and drilling for oil has led to dangerous explosions, irreversible damage to the environment and the befouling of priceless groundwater resources, Goldman Sachs has warned that some $900 billion worth of oil assets are likely to become worthless in the very near future.
Without talent, a very large part of BBC is worthless".
