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• n  a condition requiring relief
• n  anything that is necessary but lacking
  he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs
• n  the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
• n  a state of extreme poverty or destitution
• v  require as useful, just, or proper
• v  have need of
• v  have or feel a need for
• r  in such a manner as could not be otherwise
  we must needs by objective

• Paula needs to go away.
• Special-needs dolls, and Down Syndrome dolls in particular, have come in for criticism from parents who believe they pigeonhole their children and rely on stereotypes.
• Obama needs to pump serious cash into the economy in a way that promotes his long-term priorities.

• need
• demand
• want
• motivation
• motive
• indigence
• penury
• pauperism
• pauperization
• necessitate
• ask
• postulate
• require
• take
• involve
• call for
• inevitably
• necessarily
• of necessity

• obviate

News & Articles

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• Ghana needs to renegotiate some resource deals- Vice President
  ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana needs to renegotiate some resource contracts to optimize tax revenues for the cocoa-, gold- and oil-exporting nation, Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur said on Wednesday. He said there was a widely held view that Ghana, which posted a fiscal deficit of more than 12 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) last year, needed to increase resource revenues to improve its ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Oman needs to slash spending to keep budget sustainable - IMF
  DUBAI (Reuters) - Oman needs to contain state spending and raise non-oil revenue in the medium term to keep its fiscal balance sustainable, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. "Spending ...
  June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
• SingTel Needs Sale to Unlock SE Asia
  SingTel Needs Sale to Unlock SE Asia        
  June 12, 2013 - The Motley Fool

Quotes

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• Dan Gilbert in Fear the Sword (blog)
  LeBron James needs to go to another team with two superstars already so he can win a championship,Gilbert said. "We will win a championship before (the Heat) do."
• Samuel Alito in The Press Association
  ...the ruling prevents outright bans, Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court, said the constitutional guarantee does not eliminate the ability of states and cities "to devise solutions to social problems that suit local needs and...
• Barack Obama in FOXNews
  We'll begin making the immediate investments necessary to put people back to work doing the work America needs done,Obama said in his weekly radio address Saturday.