Word: spared
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...ruling was handed down in the case of Dr. Nader Soliman, a self-employed anesthesiologist who spent 10 to 15 hours a week working out of the spare bedroom of his home in McLean, Virginia. Soliman also worked a total of 30 to 35 hours each week in three hospitals. But the irs denied him a $2,500 tax deduction because it determined that his home office was not his "principal place of business." The ruling was roundly criticized by small businesses, some members of Congress and, appropriately, the National Association for the Cottage Industry...
...backdrop for Rough Crossing is spare. The costumes and set are adequate, but not especially imaginative. For a play of this kind where the action flip-flops between the straight and satirical, a few more quirky details would have been appreciated. One creative touch was the addition of a piano player (in the original script Adam Adam plays the music) on stage. The Quincy House JCR may not be the best place to stage a show, especially when considering seating. Advice to the visually or vertically challenged: get there early...
That starkness seems to call to him like a bell in a forest clearing. "I longed for something very, very spare," he says of his favorite book, Far Tortuga, and he notes with pride that there's only one simile in all its 408 pages. "Simply putting down the thing itself was so astonishing," he says. "I often think of the antennae on a cockroach coming out from under a ship's galley, and the light catching these two extraordinary, delicate mechanisms -- that light, and those things, to me is the echo of eons of evolution. What do you need...
...that was quickly joined by civilians. During the next few days, nearly $1 billion worth of property, from clothes to computers, was pillaged. After the rampage, foreign businessmen -- and foreign money -- fled the city. The economy collapsed. Since the government now has almost no money to buy supplies and spare parts from abroad, all the services that make urban life bearable are breaking down. Buses and trains stall, fuel supplies are uncertain, electricity is unreliable and water quality is in jeopardy...
...improvise as they go. "This is a classic bring-your-own operation," says one four-star Army logistician. That means supplying their own night lights at the airport, radar systems for air-traffic control, generators -- and then fuel to run them. Logistics managers are sending three times the normal spare parts, worried that sand could be a constant problem...