Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With two pauses, he did get through the letter. And as questioning by reporters continued, he took firm control, even managing a smile at times. As read by Carter, Lance's spare letter gave only one reason for resignation, citing "the amount of controversy and the continuing nature of it." The President explained further, conceding that the affair had diverted some of his own attention from more pressing duties and predicting that it would have prevented Lance from devoting full time to OMB if Bert stayed there. Moreover, said Carter, "he needs to go home and take care...
...spiritual setting of this spare new comedy by Alan Bennett, now at London's Queen's Theater, is England and the foibles of the English. Despite their exile, Hilary and Bron are more English than those who stayed behind. She shuffles around in hearty tweeds; he frets over the decline of Lyons Teahouses...
...talk to reporters for the last several months about the Justice Department probe, Helms has scrambled in other directions, enlisting the aid of old friends from within government as well as without. Former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford and others have made private appeals to the Carter administration to spare Helm's neck, and the Justice Department's continued reluctance to arrive at a final verdict on whether to indict him testifies to the influence wielded by the "Helms lobby." Bell has also granted special audiences to Helms's counsel, the renowned trial attorney Edward Bennet Williams...
...that Amin may have concocted the medical crisis to keep public attention away from some grim news that added to his reputation as black Africa's most bloody-minded dictator. Shortly before the operation, Amin announced that he had rejected an appeal by Liberian President William Tolbert to spare the lives of twelve Ugandans who were to be executed later in the week for plotting to overthrow Big Daddy's regime. The public executions of the twelve, along with three others, took place on schedule. In Nairobi, eight Kenyans who had spent four months in Ugandan prisons...
Inflation also vastly increases investors' desire to avoid risk: people who think they will need every penny to pay rising food, rent and fuel bills will not put their spare cash into an investment, like stocks, that might go down. And inflation gives them an attractive alternative investment by pushing up interest rates. Though interest rates wiggle up and down, they are far higher than in the early 1960s. So floods of investment money are being diverted from the stock market to seek a relatively safe, guaranteed return in bonds and other fixed-interest securities...