Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the debate reopened last fall, some have argued that Harvard should wait on American politicians to change the military's policy and that Harvard's action would be a meaningless waste of energy that would hurt poor and middle class students who rely on ROTC funds...
...thought a lot about it, and what I thought was this: that all these little tax proposals that I've watched are empty and meaningless. They don't add up to anything. It's just a game of churning the tax code, and I think it feeds the corruption. And my spirit of reform fits into the idea of simplifying the tax code and taking the politics out of it. And I believe economists recognize the efficiency, the incentive for saving and investment, that this tax proposal...
...phenomenon points to a void that our society has left in people's lives. They don't need Sartre to find existence meaningless. In New Perspectives Quarterly, author Christopher Lasch laments the loss of institutions of "organic unity" like family, neighborhood and religion, a loss to which "liberalism never had an answer...
Holena said he sees the work he has put intoorganizing the event meaningless...
...hurdle: California Congressman Don Edwards, the tough chairman of the House Civil and Constitutional Rights Subcommittee (and a former FBI agent himself), who vigorously opposes such access on privacy grounds. "It's a Catch-22," argues a top industry lawyer, Clifford Ingber. "Security is either going to be a meaningless service, or you have got to give companies greater latitude, as you do law enforcement, to allow them to screen their people...