Word: meaninglessness
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...performance of a rocking chair, it will not improve the efficiency of an automobile. Performance of a vehicle will not be affected until it reaches at least 50 m.p.h. With a national highway speed limit set at 55 m.p.h., aerodynamically "slippery" cars designed to achieve better fuel economy are meaningless...
...students do sit on the Standing Committee. Each of the five subcommittees (representing the five areas of the Core) also have two undergraduate members. These students, however, have non-voting status on the committees. Rosovsky argues that the status is meaningless because the committees rarely take formal votes. If this is the case, one wonders why the students are barred from voting...
...California Governor Jerry Brown, who has made opposition to deficit financing a central theme of his pre-presidential campaign. Another target is Ohio, where a legislator received a letter from Jimmy Carter denouncing the amendment as "political gimmickry" that would be "so filled with loopholes as to be meaningless or so rigid as to tie the nation's hands in time of war or depression...
...custom. So is a distaste for indignity and injustice. But, barring isolated instances, the theater does not lend itself comfortably to social polemics and underdog rhetoric. What too often happens, and Zoot Suit is a case in point, is the reduction of the stage to a soapbox and the meaningless ritual of preaching to the already converted...
Thus the presidential parade passes by, all but meaningless except to the can didates, the political groupies, the press. On the windblown streets, with snow stacked at the curbs and down the center strip, people all seem to be blimp-shaped, wrapped in navy or rust or blue quilted suits. In motels, freezing guests set thermostats at 90°-but the mercury never touches 60° all night...