Word: spared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...signs and omens about the interior life of a forbidden country. Forbidden to him as well: the Chinese authorities have withheld release of some of his films. And yet Zhang still works in his homeland, against all odds and with great grace. Just like the heroine of his spare new film parable...
Weston from About Hair says, "We had ads in Spare Change, the Unofficial Guide, Lighthouse, "he says. "Mostly, we count on [clients] telling about us to their friends...
...word "modem" was coined to spare the everyday user from having to refer to the device's more descriptive but longer name: modulator/ demodulator.Simply put, a modem takes analogsignals coming in over the phone line and converts them to digital 0's and 1's your computer can understand, and vice versa. Like the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in your compact disc player, the modem is a link between the analog and digital worlds...
Innovative as it is, the Audubon building might be written off as an impractical exercise in spare-no-expense radical environmentalism, except for one thing: the society demanded that every design decision had to satisfy the kind of bottom-line scrutiny a tightwad CEO would apply. Though it cost up to 10% more to build green than to build conventionally, Audubon president Peter Berle insisted that every environmental measure taken in the $14 million project had to justify its cost within a five-year period. Says Berle: "It was an opportunity to build a structure that would both save Audubon...
...Time Gospel Hour television audience on Nov. 8 that he objected to having a "womanizer" in the White House and said he had a tape of Clinton and Flowers discussing oral sex. Falwell did not reveal precisely the source or nature of the recording and, as if to spare his fellow worshippers the experience, told them he would not play it. But, he said, "it makes it a little hard for me having heard him say that . . . to, uh, respect...