Word: spare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's clubs no longer seem to fill the bill. The country-club lunch -- a large helping of chitchat served with a garnish of innuendo -- is too fattening and "unsupportive." Self-employed or with part-time jobs, with homes to run and volunteer work to do, what woman can spare three hours for the afternoon bridge club? "Even though there's been a revolution," says instructor Anne Grossman, a part owner of the Pennington Jazzercise Center, "we women have been taught that you don't waste time. You have to tell yourself that you're going to do something productive...
...have a spare $50,000 or $500,000, that's a mortgage you might want to make. It matches the yield on all but the junkiest junk bonds and, if you're careful, entails a lot less risk. Such deals are widely available. There are borrowers who can offer good security but, for whatever reason, can't get a conventional loan, or can't get it as fast as they need...
Even casual baseball fans know the drears of the Boston Red Sox, those goats of fate, a team usually long on talent but short on luck and even minimal strategy from the dugout. The New York Yankees are another legend: power at bat, awesome pitching, managerial smarts to spare...
...passenger was Jacob F. (Jake) Horton, 57, a Gulf Power vice president who had hastily arranged to fly to Atlanta, headquarters of Southern Co., the utility's corporate parent. Since last year a federal grand jury in Atlanta has been looking into suspicious accounting practices in the spare-parts department at Southern Co., but the inquiry has grown into a broad investigation of alleged tax fraud and graft at the utility and its subsidiaries, including Gulf Power. On the day of the crash, Horton was told by Gulf Power officials that an internal auditing group had recommended his dismissal after...
...despite the complaints, many professors say that department heads have become more sympathetic to the needs of junior members. In particular, they say, more and more senior faculty are being appointed head tutors in an effort to spare junior professors from the time-consuming bureaucratic responsibility...