Word: meaninglessness
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...from non-members, and so about 40 percent of the profits gets ploughed back into the cooperative. And even with the rebate, recent years have seen growing dissatisfaction with the direction the Coop has chosen. Many students complain that the Coop overprices in some areas, making the rebate offer meaningless. Argeros maintains that the Coop offers good value in comparison to similar stores. In addition, a number of students believe that, as Guy Molyneux '81-4 puts it, "[The Coop] has very little to do with being a cooperative." An outgoing progressive student member of the Board of Directors...
...haven't worked. Options like far stiffer penalties for recruiting violations, or tighter supervision of major sports programs are available, but they won't mean anything until the will to solve the problem arises. And while there are plenty of well-intentioned people around; while NCAA officers can slap meaningless probations on naughty little schools; and while there is a rule-book so heavy Quintin Dailey couldn't dunk it--this all-important will is hibernating...
...approval of the White House. The white elephant B-1B bomber, the first-strike Trident 2 and Pershing 2 minutes, an unjustifiable and essentiatly priced MX missle, and a thoroughly absurd and unworkable "civil defense" program were all approved Apparently many legislators see no incousistency in throwing symbolic but meaningless sops to the messive nucleat freeze movement and then fleefully voting for the very weapons which most threaten to destabilize the current neclear balance...
...have dealt with periods of the past. The point of something like Ragtime or Reds is not simply to relate history, but to make a statement that is relevant both to the period depicted and to our own. Without a message of this sort, such films would be virtually meaningless...
...there and in the minors; Mets Pitcher Pat Zachry, kibitzing near by, was a painfully lanky teen-age pitcher Rose remembers in one of those hand-me-down Reds uniforms that signify the minorest minor league. So, all around there is evidence that Pete is old. "But age is meaningless with me," he says. By some trick of time, he has skipped his true generation. His lined, leathery face is as supple as if treated daily with neat's-foot oil. As he goes into his crouch, grinning hideously, his gapped teeth look as if they were hammered into...