Word: meaninglessness
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...When you make grades meaningless you don't eliminate inequalities, you just perpetuate them on a different basis," McAdams added...
...game's structure. Even more than the quarterback, the wide receiver is aloof from the battles of the "trenches" and the sharp impacts that characterize the game. Instead, the wide receiver darts through the battling titans and if he captures the ball, their battles are rendered relatively meaningless...
Murphy flew in from New York early Saturday morning, after a four-inning stint on TV for the Mets' meaningless tangle with the St. Louis Cards at Shea Stadium. The 25-year broadcasting veteran quickly scanned a fact sheet on both squads before settling in for rehearsals...
...than 50 persons and receiving more than $50,000 in federal funds to submit a plan to the government showing how the institution intended to take affirmative steps to cease discrimination and correct for past discrimination. But, as we can see from Anacharsis' statement, a law is next to meaningless for the poor and oppressed, particularly if it is not enforced. Non-enforcement of guidelines is an integral part of the history of Affirmative Action. When no active organized compulsion is exerted by the mass democratic movement on the government, history shows that "progressive" legislation, Affirmative Action included, will...
...smiled enigmatically (An unsatisfactory verbal rendering might be, "Foolish urchin, she'll get what's coming to her, like it or not."), while men couldn't get it through their heads that I wasn't beaming a silent plea for companionship. Slips of paper scrawled with undecipherable names of meaningless splotches on the globe flutter out of my wallet now and then...