Word: spare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four months but served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury for two years. Rumor has it that he is Thatcher's new favorite to be her successor. Major's replacement: Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, 59, who presumably brings to his new job a mastery of foreign intrigue. In his spare time Hurd has written nine mystery thrillers since...
...charm of our suite is of a different nature: it comes from the preponderance of wires and masking tape covering every otherwise-spare surface. We thought that poster gum might look better than masking tape, but it just didn't hold the wire...
...addition to launching an emergency campaign of debt relief, the advanced nations of the North must make available to the desperate nations of the South efficient new technologies that spare the environment while encouraging economic growth. Fortunately, help for the South should not mean only sacrifice in the North. The need for energy-efficient and environmentally useful technologies could create an enormous untapped market -- one that several of the world's economic powers have already begun to explore. At the same time, there are ways for the South to clean up its own act. Some developing nations run up more...
...look back in the second half. Six team members scored trys, including a tally on an amazing run by Mark Sager. Steve Cohn, Soren Oberg, Chris Crisera, Dave Bulger and Sam Yoon all also scored for the Crimson. Will Rava was Harvard's strength at forward, leaping to spare high balls away from the struggling Eagles...
...Refused to spare an evangelical Christian group in Lenox, Mass., from having to return $5.5 million donated by a wealthy ex-member...