Word: meaninglessness
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...action. Kroger, the nation's largest supermarket chain, is asking suppliers to avoid buying milk from BGH- treated cows, and some companies are trying to find a way to mark their milk products "hormone free." But others, like A&P, are standing pat. Such labels, they point out, are meaningless, because no test can distinguish artificial BGH from the natural variety...
...example, can we try to do without those meaningless comparisons between Radcliffe and the final clubs for once? From where I am standing, the two issues do not appear to be similar: where final clubs perpetuate and exaggerate society's sexism and misogyny, Radcliffe's goal has always been to provide facilities for a group that has been historically underprivileged. Never having frequented final clubs, however, I do not feel qualified to expound on them at length...
...also important to recognize that often these legal solutions are little more than band-aids to a gaping societal wound. In a culture where restraining orders are often little more than meaningless pieces of paper and battered women's shelters are overcrowded and staffed by overworked social workers, there often seems to be no way to eradicate domestic violence...
There is no way of knowing yet: an entire winter of record-shattering cold, let alone a single week, might be a meaningless blip in the overall scheme of long-term climate trends. In fact, last week's cold wave was caused by a phenomenon that is by no means rare. The jet stream, a stratospheric wind that governs the movement of air over North America, dipped temporarily south of its usual course. As it did so, the stream pulled along a vast high-pressure system from Siberia and the Arctic Ocean...
Common to all of these is the concern about aloneness, the dread of abandonment, the fear of a meaningless existence. Sometimes it is associated with anger at the perceived devaluation and rejection (the famous psychiatrist Karl Menninger said two people are often killed with each suicide); sometimes with feelings of guilt, inadequacy or fear of criticism that are so great that one punishes oneself rather than being punished by others...