Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Spann, and Elmore James knew these ideas instinctively. When Elmore James shouts the lyrics about his no good woman over the driving beat created by his rhythm section and then cuts loose with a barrage of savage notes he renders literary descriptions meaningless. Every man regardless of taste in music must be moved by the emotion and power of Elmore James' performance...
...medical and surgical patients, 82,000 for maternity cases. Of the 5,850, only 3,914 have received the cachet of accreditation. Each year there are about 1.5 million admissions to the unaccredited remainder. Worse, in Cher-kasky's opinion, accreditation standards are so low as to be meaningless...
...most Blue Cross plans covered no care outside a hospital, and specifically excluded diagnostic procedures. The result has been connivance to defraud the insurers. Often if a woman needs a diagnostic pelvic examination that might better?but need not necessarily?be done in a hospital, her doctor enters some meaningless diagnosis such as leucorrhea or dysmenorrhea (which practically every woman has now and then) and plunks her in the hospital for two days. The insurance pays virtually all the hospital bill and, if the family has coverage of the Blue Shield type, the doctor's bill as well. To Mark...
...under any. circumstances. In a letter to the Washington Post last week, Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith argued for revival of the Johnson Administration's voluntary wage-price guideposts, "or something similar." Yet, as Johnson learned, such guideposts can be flouted so often that they become meaningless...
...yesterday's statement protesting the incident in Hunt Hall prefaced their declaration by saying "in the absence of a full and reliable account of what occurred there, we have no desire to pass judgment upon the incident." However, the facts of the incident make their defense of academic freedom meaningless...