Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rewarding the children of officers and bureaucrats with high grades in return for gifts from their fathers: "If you can get into the government, you can get rich." Unless they pay off, merchants find it all but impossible to get papers signed, exports loaded aboard ships or vital spare parts released from customs sheds. "The official just sits behind his desk and opens up a drawer," says the regional manager of an American company. "You start dropping in 10,000-rupiah [$24] notes until he says that's enough and closes the drawer." Suharto, to his credit, has regularly...
Perhaps the veterinary schools should hire a spare lawyer or two to argue the point...
...have special relations with any country," he said. However, Indo-American relations will probably improve since, beginning with Nehru's friendship with former president John F. Kennedy '40, Democratic administrations have generally favored India. Still, India does depend on the Soviet Union for most of its military equipment (especially spare parts), and Desai will have to face that reality...
...tear it down piece by piece, like federal agents hunting for heroin. Ceilings and floors are removed, every rivet and every cable is inspected. Engines are constantly being monitored and overhauled. The maintenance procedures are so complicated and expensive that TWA estimates it has $300 million tied up in spare parts and equipment, enough to buy a whole airline fleet not so long...
Dual Role. Press, who plans to spend what spare time he finds in his new role reading about earthquake forecasting, also managed to transmit his love of science and teaching to his children. His daughter Paula is a teacher and is married to a graduate student of public health; his son William is a professor of astronomy at Harvard...