Word: meaninglessness
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...President had already delayed the dispersal of campaign money to his rival for two weeks pending a meaningless review of legislation. This latest action meant that none of the accumulated subsidies would be available for the six Presidential primaries on May 25. Had the President simply sworn in the five members of the FEC already confirmed on May 18, payments could have been made within an hour or two. At that point, Reagan had unpaid claims in excess of $1 million. Of that figure, nearly $400,000 had already been audited for immediate payment. Of course, none of the Democratic...
...Transkei's independence is a meaningless one, since the new state will be unable to break out of this pattern of exploitation. Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of the Kwazulu homeland and one of the most outspoken homeland chiefs, has said, "I challenge anyone to prove to me that the majority of blacks do in fact want the so-called independence which is offered to our Reserves, now called 'homelands'...The majority of the black people do not want to abandon their birth right. They have toiled for generations to create the wealth of South Africa. They intend to participate...
Criticism is not welcomed. When the celebrated South African play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead was presented in Umtata, Matanzima was furious at its barbed references to the Transkei's independence as meaningless. Though the play has been hailed both in the U.S. and Britain, Matanzima closed it down and jailed Xhosa Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona (who appeared in it on Broadway last year) on the grounds that the play was "highly inflammatory, abusive and vulgar...
...KwaZulu was originally in 188 parcels, is now in 29, and will ultimately be consolidated to ten. Scoffs Buthelezi, who is also the Chief Minister of KwaZulu: "A state in ten separate pieces? The very notion is nonsensical." Buthelezi has flatly refused independence for KwaZulu, explaining: "It is meaningless political freedom combined with effective economic slavery." Adds Hudson Ntsanwisi, Chief Minister of poverty-ridden Gazankulu: "We are nothing but a staging ground for South Africa's migratory labor, and a dumping ground for her dispossessed...
...unwarranted that I and many fellow Jews are obliged to miss important early classes for Yom Kippur. It further rankles that classes are scheduled on Yom Kippur, a day that is sacred to a significant percentage of the Harvard community, but not scheduled on Columbus Day, which is a meaningless holiday to nearly everyone...