Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most toxic hickey. His dream girl is a vampire, and abstinence is the only sure precaution against infection. It takes several harrowing nights with her rambunctious vampire pals, who kidnap his kid sister, before he can escape from the Land of the Undead. Near Dark has filmmaking finesse to spare, but puts its dank characters on display rather than cadging sympathy for them. It is the Blue Velvet of date-night spook shows...
...almost been run off the road because its mechanics are employed fixing the army's Soviet T-54 tanks. Many people resort to walking, and after dark, shadowy figures flit ghostlike through a heavy shroud of exhaust fumes created by engines vigorously protesting the shortage of spare parts...
...average top price for the Times industrials had risen from 186 in 1926 to 469. Just in the previous 18 months, General Motors had climbed from 73 to 140, General Electric from 129 to 396. Best of all, in the view of the investors who spent much of their spare time eyeing the tickers in the brokerage houses that were springing up around the country, stocks could be bought on margin, or credit, for as little as 10% in cash. About one-third of the nation's more than 3 million stockholders were playing the market on margin, and people...
...platforms, prepared to stop any Iranian effort to defend them from Bandar Abbas. The initial shells hit stored fuel oil and ammunition, setting off a furious fire and a series of explosions. After 45 minutes little was left of the platforms, but the shelling continued. "We didn't spare the shells," said Weinberger. A senior naval officer was more emphatic: "We made a show of force...
...Since no one thinks that America's 2.1 million soldiers and sailors are overpaid, scrutiny should be focused on the 50% of the nearly $300 billion defense budget that goes for hardware, operations and maintenance. What deserves even more attention than the notorious price gouging by defense contractors on spare parts (one toilet seat: $750) is the wasteful proliferation of large-scale weapons systems. A raft of new, expensive hardware is coming out of research, ready to go into production. One package of eight strategic systems (total cost: at least $250 billion) includes the Stealth bomber and three missile systems...