Word: spared
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Nelson was already a battle-line warrior before the march. Three years ago, he began tutoring students in his spare time at Tyler Elementary School in southeastern Washington, where he instructs sixth-graders on how to own and operate a business. "If capitalism is the great engine that moves this country, then business is the fuel," he says. "If I show them goals they thought they could never attain, then show them how to get there, then I will have done my small part to help them achieve a better life." But the march has convinced Nelson that he needs...
...Departments are certainly concerned in the case of prominent junior faculty to give those people the best possible opportunity for promotion.... They may counsel them to devote every spare instant to departmental duties like teaching," Lewis said. "That's part of the reason for making this calendar adjustment...
Childhood sexual abuse is a beast in many of these books. In Richard Hoffman's spare, poignant Half the House (Harcourt Brace; 175 pages; $20), it sneaks in almost laconically after the author has given us a searing picture of his blue-collar family in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the 1950s, with a violent but caring father and two brothers who are terminally ill. Hazy reverence for the Catholic saints is counterpointed with hazy submission to the sadistic coach who lures the author, then age 10, to his house with pornography and sodomizes him: "Induced, premature, with a hunger urgent...
...plan as an unnecessary hatchet job designed to finance a $245 billion G.O.P. tax cut for the wealthy. The acrimony between the two parties grew more bitter still when the American Medical Association announced it was endorsing the G.O.P. plan. The apparent quid pro quo: Republicans agreed to spare doctors from fee reductions, exempt them from certain antitrust restrictions and cap large malpractice awards...
Finally, after the situation persisted through the summer, Harvard Real Estate, in conjuction with several homelessness empowerment groups (including Spare Change, Bread and Jams, and Solutions for Work) decided to erect the cage over the grates on Holyoke...