Word: absurder
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...second case, it would be absurd to exempt a section of the student body--from the drive to return meaning to the words "with honor...
...think of a number of reasons for giving out a lot of honors degrees come each June, from making a lot of people happy to giving Harvard students better positioning in the post-graduation job competition. The former proposition is absurd, the latter dubious; it is unlikely that a potential employer would weigh the designation cum laude on a resume above all the other characteristics a student would bring to the job, specially if the transcript accompanying the resume is full of E-pluses or B-minuses...
...primary system, where choice of candidates begins, is now as absurd as the presidential system before the passage of the 20th Amendment, which reorganized presidential and congressional tenures. The old rules of national elections held that a President elected in November could not take office until March; a Congress elected with him could not take office, unless in an emergency, for 13 months after the election. That system could not work in the 20th century of airplanes and telecommunications, so it was changed...
Nicaragua's army of approximately 60,000 to 80,000 soldiers, supplemented by as many as 200,000 reservists, is proportional to an eight to nine million-member U.S. army and a 25 million-strong reserve. The argument that U.S. government policy prompted this buildup is absurd; it began long before Jimmy Carter abandoned his accommodating stance toward the Nicaraguan Revolution...
...death, Indian paramilitary forces had arrested inside Punjab what they claimed was a Sikh "hit team" charged with assassinating Mrs. Gandhi. According to the Indians, the terrorists were armed with automatic weapons, silencers, money and passports provided by the Pakistani intelligence service. Pakistan had dismissed the charges as "flagrantly absurd...