Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear that scores of different kinds of viruses cause common colds and grippelike illnesses. To prepare a vaccine against a specific virus, or a small group of viruses, is meaningless in the face of such numbers. What medicine needs, said Dr. Buescher, is a new approach. "When are we going to get off our duff and look at the problem as a whole, rather than in terms of specific viruses?" he demanded. Nobody answered. The common cold seemed as secure as ever...
...know I speak for many thousands when I say that the incident at Midwestern Seminary has set us back 50 years and has made meaningless the Baptist principle of the right of every individual to private judgment in religious matters without coercion from any source...
Howe went on to say that the amendments were "needless and foolish," but predicted they would prove meaningless "in practice...
...footing. India's elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, leader of the conservative Swatantra Party, demanded that Nehru fire Menon as De fense Minister and take over the post himself. He charged that India's defense policy "has proved to be a miserable failure. It is meaningless to accuse the enemy of cheating-it's the enemy's business to cheat." Rajaji mourned that India stood alone: "All our neighbors are either against us or have lost confidence in us. Our foreign policy has failed by any test...
...nationalization of the power industry (TIME, Oct. 5), a meaningless economic move, was a sop to the Socialists, who hold no Cabinet posts, but whose 88 votes in the Chamber of Deputies keep Premier Amintore Fanfani's government in power. The next measure the Socialists are demanding is the creation of 15 regional governments in Italy, a move opposed by many Christian Democrats because it would give the left a dangerous amount of local power if the Socialists remained tied to the Reds...