Word: pointlessly
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...stimulate a stumbling economy? For decades, the consensus among economists was that this was a job best left to the Federal Reserve and to such automatic fiscal stabilizers as unemployment insurance. Passing laws in Congress to cut taxes or boost spending to stave off a downturn was seen as pointless at best. Such help would arrive too late or in the wrong place, the thinking went, or would have no impact at all. (See TIME's "Bailout Report Card...
...can’t fill your stomach with a pretty graph.” Such mistrust of science, where it occurs, is not entirely surprising: Consider the great number of “experts” who discredited themselves through spectacularly imprecise predictions and pointless internecine skirmishes. The public cannot help but feel confused to the point of paralysis by the holding pattern of contradictory studies and untenable claims into which today’s scientific discourse can lapse...
When methadone was first proposed for the treatment of heroin addiction, it sounded like a pointless gambit - sort of like substituting vodka for gin. That's enabling addicts, critics said, not helping them...
...kiwi peeler(multiple-record holder Alastair Galpin set that mark this week, stripping and eating the fruit in about 16 seconds) you're not alone. "There can be a snobbishness about record breaking," the book's editor-in-chief, Craig Glenday, told Britain's Sky News. "What may seem pointless to you could be a passion for someone else." For some, record-breaking itself has become a consuming passion. Ashrita Furman, a health-food store manager from Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched his first in 1979 by doing more than 27,000 jumping jacks...
...must not get entangled in pointless debates about 'good' civilian versus 'bad' military approaches," de Hoop Scheffer said in Berlin on Monday. "Rather, we must bring civilian and military efforts closer together in a comprehensive approach - both in-theater, and, as important, at the institutional level...