Word: needlessly
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...Were Sleeping," at least she has a job, as a computer-systems analyst. But she still doesn't have a life. Friendless and working at home, she comes into possession of a program that its creators say is an anti-computer virus program but is itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts in 'The Net's' narrative," saysTIME's Richard Schickel. But director Irwin Winkler has a confident sense of pacing and scale and, in Bullock, "an actress whose gumption and vulnerability can penetrate...
...Needless to say, Luke triumphed over Vader,saving the statue of John Harvard from destructionand earning passage to Harvard Law School. Vader,a Yale graduate, earned a job issuing Coop rebatechecks...
...FIGHTING NEEDLESS EXPENDITURES...
...altered for wheelchair access because another way was found to address the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I am pleased to get any corrections, but the more important fact, of which my book's once-sentence description of Minnetonka was only an illustration, is that similar needless expenditures are being made across America. The point of the book is to explain the defective philosophy underlying the modern regulatory state, one htat bars human judgment and makes government wastful and ineffective. My hope is that the book will help change the way government addresses public issues...
...Needless to say, I experienced all three several times on that fateful evening of waltz conducting. I returned to my room after the post-waltz party, having walked a stumbling cellist home. At this point I still retained complete control of dexterous and psychological, but alas not intestinal, functions. I lay down in bed to read, hoping that Sir Walter Scott would wear off the Scotch. But the lines of text resembled the scrolling credits of a movie on fast-for-ward...