Word: meaninglessness
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...School saying that efforts to establish the five-man review committee called for in the Rogers Motion had proven futile because of the ambiguity of the guidelines. What he should have said was that the guidelines were worded so that any appeal carried out under them would be meaningless, and that responsible faculty members had refused to take part in such a proceeding...
...contained in a series of irregularly spaced pulses picked up by radio telescopes tuned to a wave length of 21 cm. (the natural frequency of radiation from a hydrogen atom and an obvious choice of an advanced civilization). Translated into print, the message would consist of an apparently meaningless sequence of 1,271 ones (for pulses) and zeros (for gaps between the pulses...
...over the I.Q. test. Not only is the behavior of the SDS reprehensible in its own right, but it is essentially irrelevant to the issue. To allow this subject to be fought out at this level is to accept the proposition that the substantive issues involved are unimportant or meaningless, and, whoever "wins." this would further weaken the position of the forces of legitimate scholarship and intellectual freedom. It is, as I say, encouraging to find that there are 107 courageous members of the academic community who recognize the paramount importance of the substantive issues involved and their implications...
...seems a high price to pay in order to change the name of an oil company to something meaningless [Oct. 25], although I take it that you feel those responsible should be Exxonerated...
Like most black businesswomen. Miss Sanders believes that Black Power without green power is meaningless. "Blacks now are making enough money to invest in the stock market, but few know anything about it," she says. To help remedy that, she teaches a course in investing at a business college on Chicago's predominantly black West Side. Her own goal is to be a millionaire...