Word: meaninglessness
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...almost every baseball fan knows, Williams went into the last game of the 1941 season hitting .400 and could have warmed the bench for the meaningless game. Instead, he went six-for-eight in a doubleheader and raised his average...
...Cartesian, Augustinian, Kantian -- have all related freedom to significant choice. Over the past 20 years, the idea of freedom has evolved like a mutated animal, involving the absence not only of significant choice but of moral or rational restraints. Without a context of limitations, freedom has become dangerous and meaningless. If freedom has no restraints and embraces everything, then it risks becoming tyranny, since logically it must include tyranny among the things it embraces...
...treaty's constraints on development and testing because it is based on exotic technologies unavailable in 1972. This Philadelphia-lawyerly reading was hotly disputed, not only by the Soviets but by the American negotiators who helped draft the treaty as well. It would in effect render the ABM treaty meaningless and open the way to a defensive arms race in space. That is just what the Pentagon wants and what the Soviets are determined to prevent. After & months of wrangling, Shultz persuaded Reagan to adopt a cumbersome compromise: the U.S. would claim that the Pentagon's "permissive" interpretation...
...opening a dialogue with Israel, Hassan won the praise of the Reagan Administration. He may also have prevented a cutback in the $140 million in aid that Morocco receives from the U.S. Congressional leaders had been unhappy with Hassan ever since he signed a largely meaningless "treaty of union" with Libya in August...
...remainder of So is competent but meaningless. Although Gabiel's scratchy voice is perfectly at home singing funky love songs like "That Voice Again" and "In Your Eyes," his conception of what makes a good love song remains hazy and mired in cliches. These two tunes feature overly generalized and hence pointless lyrics set to often generic synth harmonies. Although Gabriel is capable of invading the mind of a political assassin, as he proved on the earlier "Family Snapshot," he seems absolutely at a loss to express anything interesting in his more amorous pieces. And his attempt at satirizing...