Word: spare
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...Democrats and reprogramming the Capitol power grid, it took almost no time for the first signs of the new order to appear. There was White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez cooling his heels outside the Senate chamber until Democrat Patrick Leahy, now the presumptive chairman of the Judiciary Committee, could spare a moment to meet with him. There was the business lobbying group known as Arctic Power, quietly canceling a 10-state, $500,000 radio ad blitz designed to sell Memorial Day motorists on President Bush's plan to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. There...
...Which would move Garza up to the Number One slot, with a June 19 appointment in the death chamber. That would be, by the way, the same Juan Garza who was to be executed in December - except that with five days to spare, President Bill Clinton postponed the event for six months so the Justice Department could further study racial and geographic disparities in the federal death penalty system. Last September, preliminary analysis showed that between 1995 and 2000, 70 percent of federal death penalty defendants were Latino or black. The study also found that a handful...
...needed money. That's the first path. The Bush administration took a hesitant step down the second path last week by announcing its first contribution to the fund: $200 million. As Oxfam has said, the administration left off a zero. If the richest country in world history won't spare a few billion as it cuts taxes by more than a trillion dollars, it will do little to galvanize financial support from other countries and foundations. If students and other concerned citizens do not wish to be complicit in a monstrous crime of omission, they must step forward...
...characterization of conservatives as uncaring is simply unfair. Among my own acquaintances, conservatives are just as likely as liberals to do volunteer work, donate money to charities and give spare change to people on the street. I know many conservatives who consider it their personal duty to help the poor. They use their time, money and energy to serve society’s least fortunate members, and in light of these efforts, the stereotype of the heartless conservative is, at its most innocuous, the gibberish of simple ignorance. At worst, it is a deep and dishonest personal insult...
...London Blitz, Dresden, the Tokyo fire bombings--all these accomplished a purposeful slaughter of bystanders in order to break an enemy's will. Sometimes the collateral damage has a moral justification--kill more than 100,000 civilians at Hiroshima, for example, in order to end the war and spare millions of lives, American and Japanese, that might have been lost in an invasion of the home islands. That argument persists, of course...