Word: spared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After weeks of private debate, President Clinton approved the base closing commission's recommendations -- but not before publicly agonizing over the decision. Trying to spare himself from the wrath of voters in the hard hit states of California and Texas, Clinton today attacked the commission and those who suggested his concerns over closings in California were merely political. "You tell me that my concern over that economic situation, when the unemployment rate is 8 1/2 percent is political?" Clinton asked. White House spokesman Mike McCurry admitted, though, thatelection politics had something to do with the President's concern...
...counterparts. There could also be a significant increase in sales of U.S. parts in the Japanese repair market if the Japanese government follows through on its agreement to change regulations that now have the effect of making drivers get their cars fixed in designated garages with mostly Japanese-made spare parts...
...NASA engineers are also portrayed in this can-do light. At one point in the movie, as Odyssey begins of fill with carbon dioxide, a group of engineers is gathered together, and a heap of what appear to be spare parts is thrust before them...
...spare time, he participated in theCrimson Key Society ("I love history and I lovetelling people about Harvard," he says). He alsoserved on the Undergraduate Council and theFreshman Council, and participated in HarvardRadcliffe Combined Charities through the PhillipsBrooks House...
There was a guy. I won't name names because he, like most of my friends (who, nonetheless, I won't spare), could probably think of ways he'd rather earn his Harvard fame...