Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outstanding federal debt ($2.37 trillion) has mounted, since interest payments on old borrowings are crowding out other items. Net interest outlays increased from 9% of the budget in fiscal 1980 to 14% in 1986, or $136 billion. Such uncontrollable expenditures, along with the Administration's determination to spare large categories like defense and Social Security, have forced budget cutters "to work in an impossibly small corner covering only 30% of the spending total," observes TIME Correspondent Lawrence Malkin in his recent book, The National Debt. A frustrated Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee during 1981, told Reagan...
Iran's navy consists of a few World War II frigates and perhaps a couple of small submarines. Its airforce is made up of some decrepit U.S. fighters without spare parts and missiles. Its army is tied up, using bows and arrows to fight Iraq...
SPECIAL mention should go to Set Designer Regan McClellan. Unlike the usually lavish Mainstage sets, the set for Lie has an spare understatement that is wholly appropriate. The stage's vast desolation, with dividing lines down the middle, is just the right setting for the isolated, detached characters...
...waiter brings our check. We have no money, so we count pennies, literally. Dredging our pockets and the recesses of our bookbags for spare change. We're going to have to leave a very small...
...spare a quarter for an Irishman...