Word: meaninglessness
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...assembly to write a new constitution before the presidential elections planned for 1983, to be a crucial step toward establishing full civilian democracy in the country. The Salvadoran left is boycotting the process, and the guerrilla groups hope to disrupt the balloting, with the aim of making the election meaningless. Spray-paint signs in the guerrilla colors of black and red warn Salvadorans that "whoever votes will be killed." Last week José Rodriguez Ruiz, a leader of one of the five major Salvadoran rebel groups, spelled out the guerrillas' broad strategy: "We are going to attack the cities...
...dissolve itself in 1969. Until 1978, there were simply no council seats to run for. And the splintered Student Assembly, since its inception, has served little more than the resumes of student-government jocks. Starting today, students have the chance to bring an end to Harvard's record of meaningless student government; we urge them to take it, and vote "yes" to the proposed Undergraduate Council constitution...
...Review's decision to couch its new plan in abstractions, then, led to its success. It's much easier to make abstract decisions without specific costs than to make concrete decisions with concrete costs. The danger is that under conservative leadership, the Review's abstractions could prove meaningless wording changes...
...earthy but sells her body for cash). Boy and girl kiss on the beach (where the moon is always conveniently full), eat romantic dinner, fight again, finally get back together, wander off into the sunset, future unclear. In between, there's a lot of completely meaningless messing around involving a frog hunt and a surprise party where everyone dresses like characters from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
Early last week, Warsaw radio announced that talks on the future of the labor movement had begun among government officials, the old party-controlled industrial unions and unnamed Solidarity "activists." That report, which suggested an attempt to make Solidarity meaningless by absorbing it into the bureaucracy, was categorically denied in an underground statement signed by "members of Solidarity's national leadership...