Word: spared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they had got a real deal with a "buddy package" to work on hotels and casinos in Aruba in the Netherlands Antilles. "What suckers we were," says Alan Berry, a 34-year-old laborer out of work for a year. "It's not like we had the $299 to spare...
...Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...
Though reducing subsidies for the well-off would spare the majority of Americans, a Clinton adviser surmises that "the problem is ((the cutbacks)) hit almost every member of the political class: in Congress, the Cabinet, the White House staff, the national news media, the business managers and professionals, the campaign contributors." Clinton, however, may have no choice but to further squeeze the well-off if he can't raise the money he needs from all his countrymen...
...frivolous, to study love's evolutionary origins, the way it was encoded in our genes or imprinted in our brains. Serious scientists simply assumed that love -- and especially Romantic Love -- was really all in the head, put there five or six centuries ago when civilized societies first found enough spare time to indulge in flowery prose. The task of writing the book of love was ceded to playwrights, poets and pulp novelists...
...more that are spotted late in the game and intercepted at a distance any closer than about 150 million km (93 million miles), only nuclear explosives pack enough wallop to avert disaster. At that distance, the energy needed to deflect a 2-km-wide (1 1/4-mile) object enough to spare Earth is about the equivalent of a 1-megaton nuclear explosion. If the object gets to about a tenth of that distance, the energy required is 100 megatons, more powerful than any nuclear device yet exploded...