Word: needless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shut out of the U.S. market will probably increase. To lessen it, the U.S. will have to revise its list of strategic goods, try to eliminate all the borderline products whose export must be approved by a NATO-wide committee in Paris. If the list were more precise, a needless source of anti-American irritation would be removed, and more European businessmen could learn firsthand the Soviet shell game. But U.S., European and Japanese businessmen must keep in mind that the Communist bloc needs trade worse than the West. Its need for capital goods to industrialize China, even of rice...
...That Bad?" Fully 1,000 doctors packed the hall when Fort Lauderdale's Dr. Richard A. Mills (after praising the Florida climate as a palliative for heart sufferers) lambasted doctors themselves for giving a lot of their patients a needless heart flutter. Sometimes, he said, the patient misunderstands when the doctor says "Your heart is slow," "Your blood pressure is low," or "Your heart is small." If the doctor does not take the trouble to make it clear that this is good news, it may convince the patient that he is seriously...
...continuing shortage of ammunition had hampered U.S. forces in the Korean war, caused "needless loss of American lives...
...sharp contrast, President Conant's formal vestment of authority was, by his own request, quiet and inexpensive. The year 1933 was a black year--depression had its effect in Cambridge as elsewhere. Conant felt an elaborate ceremony at that time would entail needless expense...
...Decided that the presidential yacht Williamsburg was a "needless luxury," ordered the gleaming 244-ft. vessel mothballed during his term in office. ¶ Recommended that the Government's $550 million worth of synthetic rubber plants, created during World War II, be turned over to private industry...