Word: meaninglessness
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...President Carter, the layoffs are deliberate destruction. He charges: "Knowing that the public will never stand for the repeal of these environmental laws, Reagan is gutting them through the personnel and budgetary back doors. With only the shattered shell of an EPA left, our environmental statutes will be largely meaningless...
Jimmy Carter revived draft registration to express American concern over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Two years later, it's clear how much the step improved life in Kabul. Candidate Ronald Reagan predicted as much, calling the sign-up a meaningless gesture and taking the debate one step further: "Perhaps the most fundamental objection to draft registration is moral." Last week, President Ronald Reagan regretted to inform us that military realities had forced him to break his promise on abolishing registration. He had new information from his blue-ribbon manpower task force: registration would save six weeks in a potential...
Reagan criticized then-President Jimmy Carter in 1980 for reviving draft registration in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. At the time, Reagan called the program ineffective and denounced Carter's move as a meaningless gesture...
...addition, Lynn criticized the president's apparent justification for his decision, charging. "Since President Reagan said it was an empty gesture in response to Afghanistan, it's an equally meaningless response to the Polish crisis...
...pipeline between the Soviet Union and Western Europe that will supply the EEC with 20 per cent of its annual gas needs while creating numerous jobs. Europeans will go to great lengths to get their gas, making Reagan's ban on the export of Caterpillar pipe-layer equipment virtually meaningless...