Word: meaninglessness
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...professional misconduct" in making his charges. Said Brooke to the committee: "My career is in jeopardy, and I just want you to hear the facts and make a judgment." The committee announced that it had "no evidence linking Senator Brooke personally" with altering the documents. The absolution was meaningless, since Wertheimer's accusations were not against Brooke but his representatives...
...President proposed that a buffer force of Lebanese soldiers be deployed between the Christians and Syrians, Assad had a brusque reply: "There is no Lebanese army, and what there is represents the Christians." After Sarkis completed a hasty tour of six Arab capitals, Assad laconically submitted to an essentially meaningless compromise, under which part of the Syrian forces besieging East Beirut would be withdrawn. Lebanese troops would be allowed to help patrol the bridges linking Beirut to the Christian areas in the north - their first active role in the recent fighting...
...founded a Japanese subsidiary and spent $500,000 in a futile search for contracts. Says he: "We wouldn't have stayed all this time if we hadn't been encouraged by government bureaucrats who said, 'Be patient, you'll eventually succeed.' " Fed up with meaningless reassurances, Neumaier braced Hiroo Takizawa, the MITI environmental guidance director. Takizawa conceded that Japan intended to protect its own. Said he: "The Japanese government believes that it is very important to nourish Japan's knowledge and technology industries and has been trying to develop its own think tanks." From...
...feel free..." He catches his words just as they leave his mouth and with the sense of humor and perspective that may be his saving grace, adds, "Well, you know what they say--'We are made to feel free by excercising a series of meaningless choices." He sighs. "They keep giving me these meaningless choices and I seem to be thriving...
...spokesman for the publishers, Jonathan Thompson of the Daily News, said his side was unsure of how a change in locale would "make a difference when lengthy negotiations proved meaningless and were broken off because of a lack of progress...