Word: pointless
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...only problem with this might be that yelling from the sidelines is discouraged in youth soccer, whereby traditional coaching is supposed to take place in practice and halftime, not during play. The leadership lesson here: Disregard pointless traditions...
Computer-magazine racks are full of advice on how to hook up to the Internet. After a long, pointless wrangle, the government last year finally granted licenses to companies that provide commercial, as opposed to academic, access to the Net. While language remains a barrier--English dominates the Internet--Japanese students around the world are using the Net to chat in a mixture of Japanese and English that their parents would never understand. Shortly after the Kobe quake, Tomoji Ohta, a college student whose parents' home had collapsed, approached TIME reporters on the rubble-strewn streets with an urgent request...
Taken together, the numbers suggest that Americans are of two minds. Though still attached to the idea that the poor can and should be helped, they are open to urgings from the right that the effort is pointless or misguided. The air these days is full of that kind of talk, and not just in Washington. On the best-seller list, The Bell Curve argues that government should quit much of the antipoverty business because the poor are doomed by their mostly hereditary low IQs. Now that California voters have approved Proposition 187, which would deny schooling and medical care...
...states: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada. Only voters in Utah, which earlier had adopted limits, turned down a proposed addition to their restrictions. The past election brings to 22 the number of states that have imposed term limits on members of Congress since 1990. "It would be pointless to mount an opposition," said Ernie Chambers, a 24-year veteran in the Nebraska state senate. "It's like a house is burning down, and all you have to put it out with is a teaspoon of water." What could have a drenching effect on the term-limits movement, however...
Yale certainly did just that, as Martins was held pointless and was assaulted on several occasions...