Word: meaninglessness
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...expression "The customer is always right" is a commonly heard one, but it is even more commonly misunderstood. We quite simply don't know what it means--and unfortunately, neither do the proprietors of many businesses. Although it may be vague and cliched, the statement is not meaningless. Allow me to make an attempt to provide it with some definition...
...council procedures. He has put a high priority on reforming the structure of the council: setting time limits and so forth. Instead of making the council "more efficient in its procedure," as Gilchrist claims, shifting priorities to such petty issues is likely to sink the council into months of meaningless debate about how meaningless the debates have become...
...adopted--trivial variations on a standard parliamentary regime are unlikely to affect its ability to produce consistent outcomes--the council will still need to change its ends, and not merely diddle with its means. Hyman has this concept clear in his head when he downplays the importance of meaningless procedural reform and emphasizes the work that actually happens in council meetings...
...could conceive of them, let alone decide they were appropriate fare for a major motion picture. The final scene of the movie is a glorious tribute to nihilism in which Brad Pitt's world is torn apart by a senseless crime that leaves the viewer convinced that life is meaningless, that pain will always triumph over happiness and that it's kinder to abort an unborn child than to bring it into the world...
...over the course of the fall we have seen an endless number of ads and posters asking us if were ready to change the rules of the game, to earn the future, or to participate in a paradigm shift. But this ad stood out in the morass of meaningless slogans and reminded us that their emptiness is in no way innocuous...