Word: spare
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...guess the City of Sydney assumes there'll be some sort of toilet-roll crisis in a flood.' ANTHONY MOORHOUSE, consultant, on the city council's suggestion that residents carry "Go Bags" for emergencies, filled with maps, spare change-and toilet paper...
...Ladies Who Launch, a nationwide networking group for entrepreneurial women, recommends starting small and controlling growth by taking on only the projects you really want in order to grow at a comfortable pace. For Louise Cady-Fernandes, 46, that meant starting a children's sweater company out of a spare bedroom in her Lexington, Mass., home and marketing her designs online instead of paying the rent on a bricks-and-mortar boutique. An added perk: she's deep-sixed the 2-hr. daily commute she had when she worked for a sportswear firm in downtown Boston...
...March, when Libby was convicted for lying about his role in exposing Valerie Plame as a CIA operative, a lot of people have wondered whether the President would step in to keep him from going to prison. On the one hand, Bush has never been a man inclined to spare people from prison time or execution. As Governor of Texas, he issued only a small fraction of the pardons offered by his predecessors from either party. And as President, his Justice Department has consistently pushed for tough sentences...
...schoolmarm, proclaiming that students should not have any free-speech rights in school. In the good old days, he writes, "teachers taught, and students listened. Teachers commanded, and students obeyed. Teachers did not rely solely on the power of ideas to persuade; they relied on discipline to maintain order." Spare the rod, he concludes, and spoil that little dickens Joseph Frederick...
...theory is that the Mafia arranged the President's murder and the silencing of Oswald by Dallas strip-joint owner Jack Ruby. This, of course, clashes with the Warren Commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone for his own twisted reasons and that Ruby impetuously killed the assassin to spare Jacqueline Kennedy the ordeal of a Dallas trial of her husband's slayer...