Word: spare
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...Maybe if we can raise a token amount, we can convince the administration to chip in some of their spare change,” Tim Sultan, who is president of the Kennedy School Student Government, wrote in an e-mail...
...died of breast cancer in 1998. The loss was devastating, but Lori took some consolation from the fact that her sister, a mother of two, had lived long enough to bequeath her remains to the UCLA willed-body program, hoping that what researchers learned from her cadaver would help spare other children the pain of growing up without a mother...
...Fish have lives and feelings too." CAROL LIAN, co-organizer of the Singapore International Fish Show, explaining why unwanted pet fish were put up for adoption in an attempt to spare them from being flushed down the toilet
Hollywood agents don't get pity. They get 10%. But spare a kind thought for Johnny Depp's agent, Tracy Jacobs. For more than a decade, her client--one of the world's best actors and best-looking human beings--has consistently turned down glamorous leading-man roles in large, profitable movies so that he could play a chorus of memorable (to those who saw them) character parts, like Cesar, the Gypsy horseman in The Man Who Cried, or Bon Bon, the Cuban transvestite prostitute who smuggles prison contraband in his rectum in Before Night Falls. Only Crispin Glover...
...with active head teaching fellows—get their course information up on the web quickly, in time to aid student shopping. There are plenty of others, though, who don’t even bother to well into the term. If they would get their acts together, professors could spare more of shopping period to provide a glimpse of course material instead of tediously going over the syllabus. Online videos, old exams and problem sets kept on course websites from past years would be even more helpful for students shopping for classes...