Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although he's won every race by a fairly comfortable margin. Baker still is concerned with the psychologies of the long distance runner. "When you're on a straight away," the dark, spare captain smiled, "you can't let the guy in back of you know you're worried; the only time you can look back at him is on the curves when you can flick a look back over your shoulder...
...military aid. By complying with the King's personal request, the U.S. would undoubtedly help him to regain much control over the junta dominated Greek army. The action might even lead to the junta's downfall, since the army is dependent on U.S. (and NATO) funds, weapons, and spare parts...
...blockade has sharply reduced Cuban imports of heavy machinery and in spare parts. Practically all consumer goods in Cuba before the Revolution came from the United states, and air conditioners, automobiles, stoves, and televisions are now beginning to break down. Spare parts are almost impossible to obtain...
...ranks and voting its conductors on or off the podium at will. It has 154 playing personnel, all of whom are actually employed by the Austrian government as musicians for the Vienna State Opera. They decide among themselves which members are to get together in their so-called spare time to give ten pairs of concerts as the Vienna Philharmonic, and which will make up the opera orchestra on which nights. This kind of shifting personnel might seem like a mindless way to run an orchestra, but the saving grace in Vienna is the philosophy that the Philharmonic...
...little of it muscle, Matchan commutes by private helicopter to his home on the isle of Jersey, one of Britain's semiautonomous Channel Islands, where he lives in noisy defiance of mainland inheritance taxes ("they offend my nostrils"). With his 96% stockholding, he runs Cope Allman with a spare, 25-man head-office staff "because I dislike middle management and all that sort of thing," likes to make patriarchal, publicity-grabbing visits to the firm's 15,000 worldwide employees. He frankly favors a personality cult as good management policy, "as long as the personality doesn...