Word: costless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critics like Upton Sinclair were quick to remind America that industrialization did not create a rosy, costless modernity. Children exploited in factories, unsafe working conditions, shoddy products and questionable business practices-all these accusations, and more, fostered debate and critical examination of the new cities thriving on mechanization...
...readiness and enthusiasm with which some Americans approach the decision to bomb is linked to the disparity in human cost on the U.S. and Iraqi sides of the conflict. The Gulf War and its televised missile operations gave us an impression that the conflict was costless. For the Iraqis, however, it was not. If American losses were expected to be on par with Iraqi casualties, it can safely be said that we in the U.S. would not be so eager to attack...
Coaches also say their recruiting process costless than those of other Ivy League schools...
There is a simple way. First, distinguish between environmental luxuries and environmental necessities. Luxuries are those things it would be nice to have if costless. Necessities are those things we must have regardless. Then apply a rule. Call it the fundamental axiom of sane environmentalism: Combatting ecological change that directly threatens the health and safety of people is an environmental necessity. All else is luxury...
There is no costless solution to the Persian Gulf crisis; our country will pay with lives and money. The question is whether our leaders will seek to minimize the loss of life--American or otherwise--by searching out non-military solutions. Can President Bush honestly tell the American people he has fairly considered every non-war alternative...