Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Winebrenner, in a new book on the caucuses, The Iowa Precinct Caucuses: The Making of a Media Event (Iowa State University Press; $15.95), points out that even if his state were a microcosm of the country, the peculiar machinery fails to produce an accurate measure of Iowans' sentiments. "Essentially meaningless caucus outcomes," he argues, "are reported to satisfy the media's needs for 'hard data' about the progress of the race...
Unless one believes that gentlemen shouldn't open each other's mail, it's meaningless to assert that the CIA intrinsically is an immoral body. America, like any other country, needs to gather information about other nations and train analysts to assess the collected data. It's that simple...
Stats the Ticket: Although earlyseason statistics are usually pretty meaningless, they sometimes provide good indications of which players to look for the rest of the year...
With a loss, all of the talk about becoming a national powerhouse becomes meaningless...
...surpassed them in the extremity of pain." Meyers' fever chart begins with blighted childhoods: each man lost his father young. Each was severely disturbed, opening his psychic wounds and bleeding into confessional verse. But they all went a step beyond, steeping in self- pity, some sabotaging their marriages with meaningless affairs, others sniping at colleagues and then placing blame elsewhere. "American society would drive anybody out of his skull," fumed Berryman...