Word: spare
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...REILLY: Surging demand in Asia--specifically, China and India--which has caused the world capacity to be fully utilized. These developing economies are growing rapidly and require energy to grow. There's little spare capacity...
...bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation oath included nearly all of the things settlers alleged it did. The insurgents did not spare the lives of women and children. And while Mau Mau’s body count was, as Elkins skillfully demonstrates, not as high as the death toll inflicted by the settlers, the insurgents matched the settlers in the realm of brutality. By contrast, Nazi claims of brutal acts committed by Jews against the Germans...
...issues from immigration reform to drug safety, playing a major role on the Judiciary, Armed Services and Health committees and leading Democratic attacks on Bush's foreign policy. On a recent day in his Washington office, which is full of paintings of boats and landscapes Kennedy does in his spare time, he took time between playing with his two Portuguese water dogs Splash and Sunny, writing a children's book and collecting congratulations on his 73rd birthday to talk to TIME...
...because it relates to areas outside the bank's responsibilities - but goes to the heart of what many observers believe is the country's lethargy about economic reform. During the past three years, demand has run well ahead of supply. After 14 years of output growth, the nation's spare capacity has been used up: there are shortages of skilled workers in a number of industries, particularly construction, and the price of raw materials and wages is rising. For instance, in Queensland electrical workers at Energex and Ergon secured a 31% pay rise over three years. Unless spending slows, inflationary...
...have my regular chat on the phone last week with my 19-year-old niece Chloe, a sophomore at Harvard, when I got an e-mail from her asking if we could reschedule. She was so busy with schoolwork, she said in her message, that she couldn't spare any time to talk with her dear aunt for the rest of the week...