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The tragedy is that much of this deforestation has been entirely unnecessary from the standpoint of economic development.
Private health insurance would make such excessive saving unnecessary by pooling relatively small premiums from individuals – or from their employers – and then paying out to those who are hit with large medical bills.
American leadership has obviously been a flawed enterprise, resulting in unnecessary wars, and the support of too many unsavory allies in the struggle with Communism.
The US and Europe, for their part, have held firm on sanctions and regard Russia’s heightened military presence in the Arctic as provocative and unnecessary.
On the other hand, technology platforms that use “algorithmic scheduling” to align workers’ shifts and hours with business cycles automatically, continue to disrupt family life and cause unnecessary stress.
What is presented as a defense of competition results in advancing politically connected special interests and imposing unnecessary costs on innovation.
Ground troops ultimately proved unnecessary, but failure was not an option.
This restriction is absurd, and it causes unnecessary hardship.
As a result, a major recapitalization of Italian banks and the creation of a “bad bank” to absorb NPLs were deemed unnecessary.
Massive foreign aid was stolen, squandered, or wrecked by unnecessary violence.
In particular, such forecasts explain the failure to run surpluses during the economic expansion from 2002-2007: if growth is projected to last indefinitely, retrenchment is deemed unnecessary.
Gita Gopinath of Harvard University objects to what she calls the Fed’s “dollar distraction,” whereby US policymakers have deviated from their inflation-fighting mandate because of unnecessary concern about the dollar’s strength.
They may even overshoot, temporarily pushing the ratios even higher than necessary, creating a bubble and causing unnecessary angst among residents.
When neither length nor complexity affects the cost of a message, however, the field is open for irrelevant and unnecessary communication.
Any new system that eliminates unnecessary care and focuses on what is really needed for patient wellbeing would also be more reasonably priced.
Therefore, those wanting to stop the slide into an unnecessary and risky war must make their own argument about credibility.
According to the Institute of Medicine, the US currently wastes more than $750 billion per year on unnecessary or inefficient health-care services, excessive administrative costs, high prices, medical fraud, and missed opportunities for prevention.
Over a decade ago, doctors at the hospital performed a medically unnecessary surgery to alter Pidgeon’s clitoris, vagina, and gonads without Pidgeon’s consent.
More to the point, they shed light on why doctors continue to perform medically unnecessary, high-risk procedures on intersex children who are too young to consent, even though the practice has been controversial for decades within the medical community.
Clinicians stopped using the drugs, but not before causing a large number of unnecessary deaths.
In other words, successful innovation requires a stable and growing economy, fresh ideas, and an absence of unnecessary and burdensome regulation.
Given that the project’s methodological flaws can be addressed with targeted review and reform, doing away with Doing Business altogether would be extreme and unnecessary.
That is not only unnecessary; it is economically damaging to Europe and developing countries alike.
The ACA has been changing that, by establishing myriad new incentives to foster efficiency in health-care delivery – for example, by reducing costly and unnecessary hospital infections and readmissions, and by adopting electronic health records.
While any central bank must be able to conduct open-market operations to manage liquidity in financial markets, selective purchases of individual country bonds that bear high interest rates because of current and past fiscal profligacy is both unnecessary and dangerous.
The third challenge that Xi faces is avoiding an unnecessary conflict with Japan.
If the proposed subsidies in France and Germany have a defect, it is not that they are unnecessary, but that they do not go far enough.
Nothing seemed too difficult for Putin, even mouthing unnecessary democratic platitudes for an Olympic committee whose members had already awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics to Beijing.
Yet, systematic silencing of Russia's media is unnecessary.
Second, the unnecessary administration of antibiotics in feed and watering systems should be prohibited.
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