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...overall ban." Carter has instructed the National Security Council to prepare a study on possible next steps. The advantage of a comprehensive ban, if accepted by all nations, is that it would significantly check the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons-making capability. But a ban would be meaningless without the cooperation of China, France and India. Some experts caution that a comprehensive test ban would also prevent the U.S. from verifying that its nuclear weapons remained in working order...
...Meaningless Numbers. Some of the earnings "loss" that companies stand to suffer with replacement-cost accounting could be made up by reduced corporate taxes. But many businessmen and economists still doubt the basic value of the system. They point out that estimating replacement costs is a highly subjective business. A machine might be obsolete and thus hard to price. Its replacement, because of unproved technology, could even cost less. "The numbers just don't mean anything," warns International Business Machines Economist David Grove. But John C. Burton, who pushed through the new rules as chief accountant...
...fully realized only when students are allowed to choose among alternatives or at least to express a preference. By not giving incoming freshmen a choice of living at the Quad with upperclassmen or offering upperclassmen the choice of living at the Quad with freshmen, the supposed alternative becomes meaningless...
Members of the Spartacus Youth League a Trotskyist organization, also attended the meeting and denounced Affirmative Action as "a tokenist program at its most meaningless...
...Beaux's Sita and Sarita (1921) looks "feminine" when you know that it is the work of a once very popular American female portraitist, a gifted conservative with a relaxed, unemphatic and slightly languid style-but not until then. And with more abstract art, division by gender becomes meaningless. What sex is Alice Trumbull Mason's painting L'Hasard (1948)? One might answer: platonic...