Word: spared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Brother, can you spare a study? TIME's Adam Cohen reports that nobody has bothered to research whether welfare-to-work reforms are working, even as the national initiative's first benchmark deadline approaches. "While the states are boasting about so many people disappearing from their welfare rolls, they have no idea where these people are actually going," says Cohen. "Do they get jobs? Are they ending up in homeless shelters...
...Fisher and legions of increasingly frustrated Kodak investors, the setbacks brought the need for a course correction into painfully sharp focus. Declaring that "we can't live with a continuing deterioration of our profits," Fisher vowed to embark later this year on cost cuts that he had hoped to spare the company. The prospect must have sent chills through the ranks of Kodak's 94,800 workers--including 34,000 in the company town of Rochester, N.Y., which has already weathered past layoffs. "Earlier in the year we thought we could wait out the price situation and the dollar," Fisher...
...commemorative album of photos from the set of The Ice Storm in Kline's Manhattan East Side apartment. The album was a gift from Sigourney Weaver, who plays his mistress in the film. It seems that Kline was rehearsing a benefit Shakespeare performance during shooting and spent every spare moment reciting speeches to the cast and crew. Weaver got director Ang Lee, co-stars Joan Allen, Christina Ricci and others to pose while yawning, sleeping or looking otherwise bored during Kline's endless classical recitations. "I always wait till the yawns are audible before stopping," Kline says...
...solitary, seemingly foolhardy labors have grown two orders of women and men willing to take risks and make sacrifices... Between her travels to the order's far-flung outposts, Mother Teresa rises at 4:30 a.m., prays, sings the Mass with her sister nuns, joins them for a spare meal of an egg, bread, banana and tea, then goes out into the city to work. Age and authority have not changed her; she is at ease these days with Pope and Prime Minister, but she still cleans convent toilets. She has won an array of international honors, including India...
...former selectperson in the town of Hudson who plays bocce in his spare time, Cellucci has a gritty Main Street quality that appeals to many working class voters...