Word: pointless
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...computers (Only statistics for the lucky class of '95). But how do writing a uselessly simple program and cramming for a test demonstrate anything? If we are expected to be statistically literate, then the QRR should make sure we are statistically literate. The pseudo-requirement we have now is pointless...
...shouldn't just have been there on a pointless political mission. To firm up his image during charges of corruption, Dinkins might find it convenient to seem as if he is doing something positive instead of just squandering public resources. But, to really make a difference, he should find something substantial to do for these children...
...despise employers -- no goose, no golden eggs"), came away with 33% of the vote. His importance was symbolic as well as substantive: Tsongas possesses a power of glamourlessness, a nerdy, basset-hound anti-image that gives hope to some voters who despair of American politics as glib, empty, pointless -- all sound bites and video bursts. Tsongas' astringent message was that Santa Claus in whatever extravagant forms (Ronald Reagan or the Great Society) is not coming back, and the nation can't afford any more toys. Tsongas succeeded, for the moment, by being virtually everything that Reagan...
While highly touted in the play's programs notes, this strategy is essentially pointless: the incestuous jealousy that Konstantin feels toward Trigorin would be apparent without it; Nina shows more character than Ophelia ever did; and the analogy completely falls apart when it comes to Trigorin and his relationship with Nina...
Cohen says that his stores are not carrying the Comic News because of the paper's practice of "handing papers out free right in front of us." In his view, free hand-outs and vending boxes rendered Out of Town's sale of the comics newspaper pointless...