Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school and college soccer teams generally schedule fewer than two dozen games each season, while aspiring young stars in Europe may play 50 or more. Inexperienced coaches are also a problem. Says Cosmos Captain Werner Roth: "When I was young, a coach was someone with a station wagon and spare time, not someone with knowledge of the game." Too often, that is still true...
McCartney mère may come to reconsider that choice for any number of reasons, and if so, may I suggest that without any sacrifice of commitment, she could spare herself, her daughter and others some trouble by condensing Equal Rights Amendment...
...something. "God, I wish it was over," people on both sides kept saying as they anxiously awaited this week's U.S. Senate vote on the second canal treaty. The first treaty, providing for the continuing American defense of the waterway, had been approved with only one vote to spare. The vote on the second pact, which would gradually transfer authority over the canal to Panama, promised to be just as unnervingly close. After all the months of expectations, a negative vote would embitter U.S.-Panama relations and perhaps lead to a serious confrontation in the vulnerable Canal Zone...
...ACSR-CSSR-Treasurer's Office route is only needed for shareholder resolutions, for those investment issues which involve social and ethical questions. On purely financial issues, Harvard turns to the professional money managers to keep the profit margin steady. Once the treasurer managed the Harvard portfolio in his spare time. But as the size of Harvard's holdings grew, and as the University turned towards the more unpredictable forms of investment, like common stocks--instead of bonds, government securities and real estate--a full-time treasurer was necessary. In the '50s and '60s treasurers used their own private investment firms...
Getting the first Panama Canal treaty through the Senate last month was roughly the equivalent of putting a big tanker through the waterway: there was no room to spare. The second treaty, providing for the gradual transfer of authority to Panama by the year 2000, is expected to have an equally narrow passage when it comes up for a vote on April 18. Opponents of the treaty have intensified their pressure on wavering Senators, and a defeat of the second treaty would force renegotiation of the entire agreement, with potentially explosive consequences. Seldom, in fact, has a project that...