Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auto industry, as well as for U.S. industry in general. Tax laws need to be changed to make it easier to raise capital to replace obsolete factories and to speed the write-off of new investment. Regulations should be re-examined to separate the necessary and helpful from the needless and expensive. The Environmental Protection Agency last week gave Detroit some relief, when it decided to drop a 1982 exhaust emissions test requirement. This will save the industry $250 to $350 million...
...Needless to say, city officials are panicked by the prospect that the proposition will pass. If they lose at the ballot box, they'll go to the state for special home rule legislation exempting the city, and they may try to stage a local referendum on the issue. If they're unsuccessful, it may make Cambridge's other problems irrelevant. After all, how can you desegregate a boarded-up school...
...mammoth consignment of modernist Russian art to the Pompidou Center's exhibition, "Paris-Moscow, 1900-1930"- while at the same time ensuring, by the threat of cancellation, that no proper discussion of the relations between art and politics in postrevolutionary Russia could be raised in the catalogue. (Needless to say, the show could not be seen in the Soviet Union in any form...
...Needless to say, old Erns (that's what they call him in Detroit) wasn't too happy just standing on the sidelines while his beloved Cubbies were going on to win all sorts of titles like the World Series and the Stanley Cup Face Off. So he told George Halas, the owner of the Cubs, that he was fed up with all that and wanted to do something more fun and useful...
...example was the needless confusion over whether or not Reagan should retain Bill Brock as chairman of the Republican National Committee. First he wanted to keep him on; then some aides said Brock had to go; finally Reagan kept him after all. The campaign in the states is off to an ominously slow start because of a lack of direction at headquarters. Last week aides somehow failed to pass along an invitation to Reagan to address the N.A.A.C.P. convention in Miami. Reagan does not often appear before black groups and may not have wanted to go to Miami anyway...