Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...under way, let me tell you about my Thanksgiving vacation. I got home Wednesday, had dinner, watched television, and went to bed. From there it was downhill. I awoke at 4 a.m. with violent stomach pains which were to put me out of action for the next few days. Needless to say, I didn't eat much Thursday...
Turner has also brought on needless complications by offering two different explanations for the trimming. He first argued that it was merely an effort to reduce the enlarged ranks caused by the war in Southeast Asia. But officers retort Schlesinger's reductions had done that. Next Turner contended that the U.S.'s technological capability for gathering intelligence had improved so much that far fewer field agents were needed...
...Afrikaner control is maintained. The blacks are written out of the political system; the coloreds and Asians are given a symbolic role but no real power. And the English-speaking whites are simply outnumbered by the Afrikaners by a ratio of 60 to 40 on a white franchise that, needless to say, is based on the principle of one man, one vote...
...nation's energy binge has gone on without significant letup. Token fuel-saving gestures have been widespread, and it may be that most Americans have actually turned back the thermostat a notch now and then or switched off a needless light. Still, through last summer America had managed to use and import more fuel by far than ever before...
Turner frets that needless fast chases will continue until police attitudes are changed. "There's an ego problem," he explains. "Rookies, especially, tell themselves, 'No son of a bitch is going to beat me.' That type is dangerous?to himself and everyone else...