Word: needless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decree requires that the steel points be impounded for 48 hours before the corrida. It also requires the bullfighter to face the bull with only one cape-waving helper, instead of the many formerly used to confuse the animal. Bulls now must be bigger, and to save them needless, heavy-handed torture, bullfighters must limit their passes to twelve minutes and kill within six minutes. If they fail, the bulls will be released from the arena...
...photographic industry were delighted that TIME saw fit to devote a cover story [Nov. 2] to photography . . . However, I felt that a needless oversight was made in not mentioning anywhere in the article the fact that a camera exists which delivers a finished picture right on the spot, without the necessity of making that trip to the drugstore which your article mentions. I realize that the story was intended to deal primarily with photography as an art form but . . . I'll guarantee you that you will find the Polaroid Land process high on almost anybody's list...
Planning constructively for next year, the Athletics Committee has two main problems to meet. They must devise a system for keeping complimentary seats off the ticket market. Less urgent, they must work out a method for systematic handling of student tickets, avoiding both favoritism and needless crowding...
...consecutive house calls, last week reported their principal conclusion in the A.M.A. Journal: one-fourth of the calls were unnecessary; the patients could just as well have come to the office. On strictly medical grounds, almost two-thirds of the home visits might have been classified as needless, the doctors added, but they took account of "other circumstances": a mother tied down with children and no babysitter; patients who needed emotional reassurance. Two-thirds of all home calls were to treat women...
...Administration's economic program had been designed to promote individual liberty and initiative. Said Ike: "To free our economy from bonds that denatured healthy and necessary competition, we abolished a labyrinth of needless controls." And while the $258 billion increase in the federal debt in the last 23 years forbade immediate lowering of taxes, "the Executive and the Congress reduced the previous Administration's budget request for the current year by almost $13 billion . . . some $80 for every American...