Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul said he has already arranged to have alumm and students in major cities across the country interview applicants in order to spare them the cost of traveling to Cambridge...
...withdrawal involves no great financial loss for IBM. The company's Indian business amounts to only a tiny fraction of worldwide annual revenues of $16 billion. In a quarter-century, IBM's Indian operation has earned just $6 million in profits. The Bombay plant now makes only spare parts, having stopped the reconditioning of used computers six years ago. The company will sell at giveaway prices 125 obsolete model 1401 computers it has currently on lease in India, along with its facilities there. Analysts wonder if IBM's policy of 100% control will be able to withstand...
With $50 million in spare cash, Harrah's is starting to search elsewhere for new jackpots. On the drawing board at corporate headquarters are plans for an Australian casino ("They're the gamblingest fools in the world down there," says Dyer) and "Harrah's World," a Disney-like entertainment-gambling complex west of Reno. But the company's aversion to debt and its insistence on rigid controls over the tiniest details of its business mean Harrah's will probably not diversify very fast. The odds are heavy against its opening a casino in New Jersey...
...Washington, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance announced that the U.S., which has observed the 1963 voluntary arms embargo, will extend that policy to cover all previously exempt police and military equipment, including spare parts and maintenance gear. In addition, said Vance, as evidence of "our national concern" over "the regrettable recent steps" taken by South Africa, the U.S. will withdraw the naval attache from its embassy in Pretoria and recall the commercial officer from its consulate in Johannesburg...
Borges includes a few of his gaucho stories: spare, Kiplingesque tales of hard drinking and knife fights in provincial Argentina, where, he says, there is no small town "that isn't exactly like all the others - even to the point of thinking itself different." Such stories of pure action follow a ritual and rhythm - like simple milongas and tangos - that allow the author to dance briefly from the library stacks where he has spent most of his years. And where he truly belongs. For it is from the life of books that he discovered how to fit elegantly rigged...