Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passes through his old neighborhood, and most of the Pope watchers also try to solicit Einhorn's attention; for these hungering egos, any notice, any brush with glory, will do. The upshot is at least four deaths, three shattered romances, one imprisonment, one resignation from a convent and the needless scorching of two Brillo pads...
...heard before. Since World War II, at least 35 groups have been impaneled to study the Pentagon. "Few of these countless proposals and recommendations have been taken seriously, and an even smaller number have actually been adopted," noted a Senate Armed Services Committee study on defense organization last fall. Needless to say, merely rearranging boxes on an organization chart hardly guarantees success. Still, even among the Pentagon's staunchest allies, a search for meaningful reform is under way. Increasingly, the question is becoming not just whether to spend more on defense, but how to spend the money more wisely...
...long-time alliance between Blacks and Jews (an erosion I do not have the time or space to get into here). I have been the target of intolerant behavior from both groups, and find distasteful in the extreme any measure of intolerance from a member of an oppressed group; needless to say, I have many days when I despair of social harmony. Still, it is precisely because I am at bedrock an optimist that I am writing this letter, and because it is in my best vested interest that a rapport between Jews and Blacks once again flourish. Editorials such...
...seems the drama of worsening relations among minority groups is to be played out again--with one actor exchanged for another. When Time magazine portrays Asian-Americans as a model minority, it sows the seeds for needless conflict between Blacks and Asian-Americans--groups that might otherwise be united...
This year's decision to disclose lottery numbers before rooming forms are due is a step in the right direction because it stresses roommate choice above house choice. Nevertheless, the only way to avoid encouraging parochialism and needless anxiety is an entirely random process for placing rooming groups in houses. A random housing lottery would not stop students from self-selecting into groups of friends with shared interests and attitudes. Nor should it. But by diminishing the importance of stereotypes, a random lottery would help to eliminate hostility and disdain between people with different attitudes and lifestyles...