Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Letty's "overactive metabolism." Says he: "She never accepted efficiency as a means of allocating responsibility. I could never say she should do the dishes because she did them better." Replies Letty: "But he never thought he was entitled to special privileges because he was a man." Needless to say, both score very high on questions about grapefruit knives and mortgage payments...
...Needless to say, it's the same old story," he said. "I don't understand why we're not allowed to get better service--either you use HDNS or you don't get a paper, and that's unfair," he added. Smith said he "has not thought about" a refund policy for this year...
Much of what is wrong with Cambridge is not the city's fault--Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, must make conscious decisions to end their needless expansion into residential neighborhoods. There are other problems the city will have to face--maintaining a diverse city in the face of rising costs and increasing gentrification, or allowing economic development without sacrificing the high quality of life. But Cambridge deserves a celebration this weekend. It has come much further than most American cities, and it has the resources and the pride to go much further still...
Much of what is wrong with Cambridge is not the city's fault--Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, must make conscious decisions to end their needless expansion into residential neighborhoods. There are other problems the city will have to face--maintaining a diverse city in the face of rising costs and increasing gentrification, or allowing economic development without sacrificing the high quality of life. But Cambridge deserves a celebration this weekend. It has come much further than most American cities, and it has the resources and the pride to go much further still...
...most of them--like the over-ventilated Science Center--reflect the lack of energy-efficient planning. But energy costs skyrocketed last spring--this year's budget for energy is half again as large as last year's--the Faculty commissioned a group of experts to propose means for reducing needless consumption in those buildings without affecting the day-to-day life of the University...