Word: meaninglessness
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...intended to discourage the expression of dissent and especially to show how much more enlightened and sophisticated they are than the rest of us. Anyone who disagrees with them is branded a bigot, a racist, a homophobe and so on through the catalog of epithets the Left has rendered meaningless through reckless overuse. They explain away people who hold views different from their own by attributing to such backward folk the all-purpose motivation of Hate...
...only statistics on sex for years. No one in America really has a clue as to the size of the illicit drug trade, though multibillion-dollar figures are commonly tossed around. Mitch Snyder, the late activist for the homeless, once admitted his figures on people without shelter were essentially meaningless. "We have tried to satisfy your gnawing curiosity for a number," he told a congressional hearing, "because we are Americans with Western little minds that have to quantify everything in sight, whether...
...military procession was headed for the surrounded enclave of Srebrenica, where 15,000 Muslims await evacuation, thus far in vain. Despite a World Court ruling in Bosnia's favor against alleged aggression, and the debut slated this week of NATO warplanes to enforce what so far has been a meaningless ban on military flights above Bosnian territory, there remains scant international consensus to punish Serbia for refusing to recognize a peace plan in its neighbor's year-old civil war. One increasingly vocal holdout at the U.N.: Russia, which historically has maintained close ties to Serbia...
...really has no control over what any of them do," Dowd said. "The board has explicitly decided not to take any such action ifonly because it's a meaningless action...
...Perot seriously believes spending should be cut beyond Clinton's proposals, he should accept the president's challenge and provide specifics. Until then, his complaints are meaningless and risk diminishing support for Clinton's program when no viable alternative has even been suggested...