Word: meaninglessness
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Some students have called the Latin American certificate "meaningless" and administrators at other universities say it has limited value for people applying to graduate school, but professors defend its worth. "I am thoroughly against the proliferation of area studies departments," says SueCline, assistant professor in Latin American history. "The Latin American program has always been fairly loose and has always afforded a lot of flexibility...
...accommodation between President Reagan and Syrian President Hafez Assad as essential to any Lebanese solution. London has concluded that Gemayel must step down and that the May 17 accord between his government and Israel, calling for the mutual withdrawal of Syrian and Israeli forces from Lebanon, is effectively meaningless...
...opera celebrities upstage one another while rehearsing for Tatua's memorial concert, a foppish conductor reveals his obsession with the dead soprano while an English lord is cuckolded by a member of the ship's crew. The film moves without direction, as scene after scene of extravagant dinners and meaningless tete-a-tetes follow one another and avoids any serious character or plot development. Instead it concentrates upon painting a picture of the rich, the bored, and the effete...
...another job with no loss of seniority, wages, or benefits while her case is being decided. Binding arbitration also means that the administration has to follow through on whatever is agreed, unlike Harvard's current process which has no enforcement provisions. Simply stated, any policy without enforcement is completely meaningless...
...build a synthetic one. The can-do country (its creations include synthetic rubber, artificial flavors and plastic hearts) has come up with a substitute: ad hoc centrism. The mechanism is government-by-commission, and unlike the "commission on the future" of years past, today's commission is not meaningless, temporary employment for eminent and idle statesmen. It is an essential political instrument for improvising a center. And it is the political story...