Word: spare
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After recently losing a major donor, Spare Change News, a “street newspaper” sold by the homeless on the sidewalks of Cambridge, is facing severe financial difficulties, aggravated by the current economic crisis...
...Spare Change, a publication of the Homeless Empowerment Project designed to both provide the poor and homeless with jobs and educate the public about issues related to homelessness and poverty, has weathered financial crises in the past. But Eck said the recent loss of a major donor has him more worried than ever before...
...what he describes as a “change in and loss of personnel” that led to a recent merger with Boston-based Whats Up magazine–which became a supplement in Spare Change– Eck said that the paper has alienated a member of the Buffet family who previously donated $40,000 a year to the publication...
...loss of this gift will make Spare Change News much more dependent on their biannual appeal for contributions, published on the back page of the paper in November and March. Each appeal, which encourages readers to send donations to the paper in an enclosed envelope, typically generates $25,000 to $30,000 dollars...
...into confusion. Her first instinct was toward prayer (her first instincts were almost always toward prayer), but she did not know what to pray for. The marbled vestibule seemed to spin around her in a white haze. All around her, the blur of white walls and white pillars and spare mahogany furniture seemed to dissolve into one streak, like a spirit. She sank to the floor, clasping her hands. And as if a voice had spoken to her, she knew with a sudden strength and certainty that the stranger was not good—nay! that he was evil...