Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle resolved itself into a needless power struggle not over unionization, but over prestige. It finally took negotiations between the presidents of the two unions last week to get the UAW out of Cambridge...
This whole thing is almost too silly for words. It's certainly too silly to go on. Why doesn't Quincy just get rid of the needless restrictions and cool Golob's fire...
...part because of the death in a car accident of her only child Ann at the age of 19, she turned toward Catholicism and decided in 1946 not to run for re-election. Needless to say, a Luce retirement was hardly a rest: the years that followed found her explaining her conversion in a series of articles titled "The Real Reason"; memorably denouncing the Democrats as a speaker at the 1948 Republican National Convention; receiving an Oscar nomination in 1949 for her original story for the gentle comedy Come to the Stable, about two nuns setting up a hospital...
...Needless to say, he was careful to make sure the type matched...
...study in chutzpah when performing extemporaneously, Biden continues to generate needless friction with careless remarks. Asked last week whether he would consider Jesse Jackson as a running mate, Biden could have ducked the question. Instead, he said that Jackson lacks experience in elective office. The next day he backed off, saying the discussion was "silly" because Jackson is far ahead of him in polls...