Word: meaninglessness
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...White House last week they were most worried that all the swear words that Nixon used would upset a lot of Americans who thought he rarely cussed. That concern is really almost meaningless in the current context. What produces despair is that men given the responsibility for doing so much for this nation would spend so much time and energy contemplating the violation of that trust...
Reporters and Judiciary staffers who have spent the past several days pouring over the choppy passages-often rendered meaningless by remarkably convenient uses of (expletive deleted), (unintelligible), (inaudible) and (unrelated material deleted)--are not as impressed that the evidence tells such a story...
Increased productivity is relatively meaningless if it is accompanied by the population boosts so characteristic of history's past technical breakthroughs. Without population control, more food only means more people, more hunger-and more problems all around...
When the study is complete, figures showing the ratio of women applicants to the overall pool will be available. But these figures alone may be meaningless, since few students--men or women--participate in the competition for those prizes that require submitted work, as opposed to cumulative academic achievement. An official in the prize office said that most of the essay contests that her office oversaw this year drew under 10 competitors. The problem may be one of access for the whole community: A select few students compete for costly rewards. Or it may be benign: Few students...
...nothing, he might have added, will happen, at least for a while. The informal gathering of EEC foreign ministers, scheduled for next month in Bonn, where Callaghan was to spell out in detail Britain's aims, has now become meaningless because of France's uncertain political situation. At the same time, Pompidou's death scuttled plans for a late May or early June summit of EEC chiefs to consider the British proposals...