Word: spare
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...winning" side. Had the deal gone through, GE's opponents would have been able to pick up some of the Honeywell businesses Welch was ready to divest. Now they can't. At least some on the GE side of the case felt that the competitors' appetite for GE's spare parts would trump their fear of a merger. That didn't happen...
...Spare Us the Details...
...first day at work, I got lost among the soaring skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan and arrived to check in with the receptionist with only five minutes to spare. After filling out the requisite paperwork, I rode to the 24th floor only 10 minutes late. I chatted with the security guard via intercom and then stepped into the gray and green hallway that would be my office for the next eight weeks. The place was completely empty. My coworker Miriam cheerily informed me at 9:45 that no one comes in on Mondays. The other interns...
General Augusto Pinochet's failing health will spare him a trial, according to a ruling issued early this morning by a Santiago court...
...Destroy," it reads. "Save Liberia." The poster is pasted in the windows of the four shops in the waiting area and on the outside of the door of the first class lounge. I asked the man behind the bar in the food shop if he had any copies to spare. "Send me a T-shirt from your country and I will give you this one," he offered. I promised him I would and he carefully took down the poster and handed it to me. I wandered back to my travelling companions and showed them my prize...