Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President calls Jones on secure phone and learns all crews not accounted for. President instructs that needless military action be avoided; air cover if needed for extraction, but an engagement should be avoided. Show of force first before shooting down any Iranian planes. [All of this referred to the helicopter crew we believed to be on the ground in southern Iran. If necessary, I was ready to send in military forces from the aircraft carriers to protect the crew. At one point, intelligence sources reported a beeper signal from the downed helicopter.] Discussion of what commmunication to make...
...hand, are traditions, remnants of an activist era still remembered fondly. The University obviously feels anxious to do away with such nettlesome relics. But in picking a fight with Harvard's women, instead of being satisfied with the status quo, it may be getting into its own Vietnam--a needless fight from which it cannot emerge victorious, only tired and tarnished...
...when a negotiated settlement for the evacuation of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas appeared to be in sight, the Israeli armed forces were conducting their most severe air blitz of West Beirut. Virtually shouting, the President said that he was "shocked" at the Israeli attack, which he said had caused "needless destruction and bloodshed." The Israeli Prime Minister seemed incredulous, although in fact he had been expecting the President's call and dreading it. Begin assured Reagan that he had already ordered another cease-fire in Beirut. The two men spoke again about 20 minutes later, and, somewhat encouraged...
...Paradise, on Common wealth Ave off the Green Line, is the top club in town, just short of the Orpheun and the Boston garden Covers are often steep, and shows tend to end rather promptly at midnight. Drinks, needless to say, are even more expensive then elsewhere. Since you can often see the same band at Swift's a day or two before or after the Paradise date, it pays to stay home in Cambridge...
...added that it was "too early to say whether the renovations could be completed by early September. "There are lots of things going on, so needless to say, there are lots of problems...