Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RECENT DECISION by Harvard's nine exclusive, all-male final clubs to continue their practice of excluding women from membership was not entirely surprising. But the request by the presidents of the clubs for more time to discuss the issue seems pointless. The clubs' presidents and members of their graduate boards have met extensively with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who has tried to persuade them to change their policy for a number of reasons. They are clearly not ready to do so, and this issue should no longer preoccupy any member of the Harvard administration...
Some, of course, view the whole matter as rather pointless. After all, a posthumous degree seems to have about as much worth as a driver's license: it's not much good if you're not around...
...that the recovery is of long-term significance. For one thing, this "success" has nothing to do with the increased investment Reagan's supply-side minions said would be brought on by tax-cuts for corporations and the rich. It has everything to do with Reagan's massive and pointless increases in defense spending and his bulging budget deficits, which together have unintentionally provided the impetus for an old-fashioned, demand-driven Keynsian recovery...
...Foreign Minister and First Deputy Premier Andrei Gromyko had said it all before too, and he was no more yielding in private than he had been in public. All very well to talk about flexibility, he said, in effect, but the U.S. is taking unreasonable positions; it would be pointless to resume bargaining until those positions start to change...
Still, says Rusk, we need more "pointless talk" at the highest levels of diplomacy. Out of such seemingly aimless moments come feelings that at first are formless but can change the world some day just as surely as the strongest armies. Something could start this week. Stranger things have happened at lunch in the White House...