Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mainly she clicks off the events and people in her life with the diligent rhythms of the Twentieth Century Limited, which she had boarded in 1943 to start her film career. The exception is when she recounts Bogart's stoic struggle with terminal cancer. Here her prose becomes spare and piercing: "I sat with him, had coffee-he still couldn't forget the night before. I asked him if he felt better. 'It's always better in the daylight.' Sun day School was short, I had to collect my babies-I said...
...years ago, for example, few of the airbases in NATO countries could service any but their own warplanes. By next year, most bases will be able to accommodate all NATO aircraft. This is being achieved through extensive training of ground crews, stocking bases with a wide range of spare parts and ammunition and doing such deceptively simple things as designing nozzles to fit the gas tanks of all NATO planes...
...billion. Aside from collecting assets cheaply, Borg-Warner would be buying 1) protection from a possible unwelcome bidder for its own company, 2) a sizable paper loss from the 500-series recall that could be used to reduce future taxes and 3) Firestone's hoard of spare cash...
...lacks two major instruments of bureaucratic strength: an operational staff and a power base. When he went to Carter with a request for four assistants, he was initially refused permission to hire anyone. Last week the President approved the staffing request, but told Kahn to try to nab some spare bodies from other agencies. Enormously successful in piloting the airline deregulation drive while he was head of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn finds his new job much tougher because he does not have the force of any tangible organization to back him up. Reports TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber...
...There aren't going to be too many doctors and clinics that are going to be able to afford to advertise anyway," Welch said, adding physicians with small practices may not be able to lower prices, but large institutions may have more money to spare...