Word: meaninglessness
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...final doubles match, meaningless by this time, went to the Bulldogs as Todd Lundy and Kevin Shaw fell to Geoff Tabin and Brad Dressler 7-6, 7-6 in a long, close match...
...defense. The President had proposed military outlays of $101.1 billion, and vowed to veto any reductions. Though liberal Democrats wanted to cut as much as $7 billion, the House Budget Committee reduced Ford's target by only $500 million. The Senate Budget Committee proposed an even more meaningless $300 million cutback...
...bottom of the seventh for five runs on five hits and the usual array of errors and wild pitches which made spectators an endangered species by the end of the afternoon. Harvard did not come alive soon enough, however, as the rally fell one run short. Exeter added a meaningless run in the eight to close out the scoring...
...with another conglomerate, Omega-Alpha, is fighting stockholder fraud suits. But thanks to Ling's penchant for corporate spinoffs, parts of the old LTV have emerged to flourish as independent companies. The one with the most exotic projects is Dallas-based E-Systems Inc., a company with a meaningless name, an ultrasophisticated product line and operations that extend to such recherché places as the Sinai desert and the planet Mars...
...larger concern--what can be accomplished by misleading the media? By now it seems cliche merely to point to certain human realities of the media, including their accessibility to those who would mislead them. Simply to demonstrate the gullability of any human system is, in the final analysis, meaningless. A far more worthwhile program would be to emphasize the need for truthfulness and straightforwardness by all media users, even at the risk of not making self-fulfilling prophesies. John O. Northrop Despina Vodantis Birmingham, Alabama Board of Education...