Word: senselessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failing to include deserters, and those with less than honorable discharges, the pardon discriminates against those whose opposition to the war grew out their horror at the senseless destruction they witnessed. Moreover, while the majority of those eligible for pardons are middle-class whites, a disproportionately large number of deserters are members of disadvantaged minority groups. Many of these people simply lacked the information or financial means to evade the draft. Any government action to heal the scars caused by Vietnam surely must include these men. It should also cover those who participated in non-violent acts such...
...will not admit defeat even if, as seems likely, District 65 earns the right to represent the Med Area workers. University officials admit that they have not ruled out the possibility of challenging any possible union victory in federal court--thus ensuring perhaps another year or so of costly, senseless legal bickering that will benefit neither Harvard, its employees, nor the students...
Thornton Bradshaw, president of Atlantic Richfield, directed his barbed wit against the Executive Branch's energy efforts. So far, he said, that branch has accomplished little other than creating needless jobs and promulgating senseless regulations. Said Bradshaw: "There is a basic rule: any regulation must be followed by another regulation that tries to overcome the problems raised by the first...
...submit that the wave of terrorism, like that of the Hanafi gunmen in Washington [March 21], will stop only when terrorists are met by the one thing they well understand: armed force. Only when the price becomes too high to pay will people like the Hanafi leader stop the senseless slaughter of innocents...
...secrecy is senseless, in a way. since most of their neighbors know that the Marranos are Jews. But their hideous history explains why they remain a people in hiding. In the 15th century, Portugal's 200,000 Jews made up one-fifth of the population. Many of them were refugees from the Spanish Inquisition, and they came to play an important role in finance and scholarship. When King Manuel I sought to marry the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, however, Spain's fervently Catholic monarchs told Manuel that he would have to get rid of the Jews...