throw-aways

Far too many of the stories are throw-aways (the second half of "Far Out," for example, consists of a series of overly cute exercises in whimsy that are, frankly, not worth the bother), and the order Updike has given them doesn't particularly do them credit or force us to consider him as a writer of short fiction in any new and more illuminating light.

Updike, John 2010

Instead of algae-base, the airline is using used cooking oil or fast-food restaurant throw-aways, said Robert Ames, vice-president of Dynamic Fuels, which produced the fuel.

US airlines begin powering flights with biofuels 2011

As R.F. cried out, she and the other long-term unemployed are not throw-aways, they are American citizens.

Michael Thornton: Letters from Victims of the Great Recession Michael Thornton 2011

Obama gave concessions on some very small points that were throw-aways at best.

Pelosi: Health care surtax could be lowered, not eliminated 2009

And, it turns out, he has found much to bless--not in quiescent benediction but in eloquent requital of society's throw-aways, the voiceless legion of factory stiffs and others made marginal by various depredations of the 20th century.

Jan Herman: Philip Levine's Factory Stiffs, Society's Throw-Aways Jan Herman 2011

As R.F. cried out, she and the other long-term unemployed are not throw-aways, they are American citizens.

Michael Thornton: Letters from Victims of the Great Recession Michael Thornton 2011

And, it turns out, he has found much to bless--not in quiescent benediction but in eloquent requital of society's throw-aways, the voiceless legion of factory stiffs and others made marginal by various depredations of the 20th century.

Jan Herman: Philip Levine's Factory Stiffs, Society's Throw-Aways Jan Herman 2011

I saw that my job was to translate this language of rage with the hope that people will hear and comprehend just what society's young throw-aways have been trying to tell us all along.

David Chura: Kids & Crime: Translating the Language of Rage David Chura 2010

I saw that my job was to translate this language of rage with the hope that people will hear and comprehend just what society's young throw-aways have been trying to tell us all along.

David Chura: Kids & Crime: Translating the Language of Rage David Chura 2010

Maximum Platform is the very least we can offer these children, who are not throw-aways, and who are worth every penny of the money.

Amanda Copeland: Maximum Platform Versus Basic Floor: The Case for Autism as its Own Universe 2009