Word: meaninglessness
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...talking with the workers during lunch break. He ignored me, and began to lecture the workers on the evils of the UFW, and promised that if they voted "no union" and signed a petition he had with him, the Teamster dues would end. Actually, this petition was meaningless because the vote was UFW vs. "no union"; the dues to the Teamsters would stop anyway, whether or not the UFW won. It was obviously a list to separate the UFW supporters from the others, so that if the UFW lost the election they could be fired...
...fourth quarter, then, was meaningless as far as the final result went, but it gave Buckley further opportunity to show Restic what he could do. He made the most of the chance, eliminating the mistakes and throwing for a pair of scores...
...weak and need protection-are rapidly breaking down and "extended longing" crucial to romantic love has been dealt a death blow by casual sex and the easy availability of birth control. Says Kinget: "The notions of agony and ecstasy traditionally associated with this kind of love have become meaningless-in fact, quaint...
...placement. (In one department work as a bank officer or car salesman may be considered placement, in another only a teaching appointment at a certified college is counted as such.) Overall, 88 per cent of the 1976 graduating Harvard Ph.D. s found jobs, a figure which is next to meaningless because of the varying definitions of the word "job." But one thing is certain. Keenan says increasing numbers of graduating Harvard Ph.D. s have been finding placements at points lower down on the academic ladder: fewer receive appointments at major universities, more find jobs at two-year community and junior...
...promised to release, for example, are charged with political crimes. Civil rights investigators can find only 17 political prisoners on the list; the rest are charged with common crimes. Thus as a sign of political mellowing, the prisoner release has become, as one dissident churchman puts it, "basically meaningless and hypocritical." Moreover, though Marcos has promised that mistreatment of prisoners will be harshly dealt with, the Commission of Jurists charges that torture continues in Manila's "safe houses," where pre-detention center suspects are held...