Word: spared
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...urge the administration, with all our heart, to spare these unfortunate products of a broken home the ruthless and arbitrary judgements of the Ad Board. All they wanted was to watch a little Beavis and Butthead. Have mercy, good sirs...
Running against a popular incumbent who reviles the Contract with America, Uldrich combines G.O.P. policy with his own detailed agenda. He would spare Social Security and Medicare, for example, but cut expenditures by raising the age of retirement in proportion to the increasing life-span. He supports tax policies that reward savings and investment, and the Bipartisan Clean Congress Act, which limits PAC contributions...
...working out, told partly from Devlin's viewpoint and partly, in convincing street language, from that of the drug dealers and their women, is spare and cinematic. Devlin, far out on a lonely voyage, saves his honor. Saves his daughter too. But it is the neighborhood that wins. Good ending, good novel. The author's most recent book before Ten Indians was All Souls Rising, a panoramic, 530-page historical novel about Haiti's slave rebellion in the 1790s. A lot of readers of the new novel who never read Bell before are going to be digging that...
...been such a nail biter. Analysts now say Bill Clinton's comeback and Newt Gingrich's blunders have given the Democrats at least an even chance of picking up the 19 seats they need for a majority. But they probably cannot count on getting more than a few to spare beyond that. Whichever party wins the House may find itself with the narrowest margin in decades...
Perhaps a touching, Billy Crystalesque, account of my first trip to Yankee Stadium. Maybe a poignant memory of my family gathering around the radio to hear John Sterling's melodious, "Yankees win, the-uh-uh Yankees win!" But I will spare the audience my joyful tears, at least until they...