Word: sparely
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...state, including West Point and the perpetually deployed 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum. It didn't entirely surprise him that it took three months to get on her schedule or that, once he did, her staff called his twice to remind him that she couldn't spare more than 15 minutes...
...being newcomers to the faith doesn't spare converts from the suspicions and pressures faced by Muslims in the West today. Ali Khan, the national director of the American Muslim Council in Chicago, says he once had to convince a recent convert's wife, who wasn't Muslim, that her husband wouldn't suddenly become a terrorist. "A lot of their families freak out at first," Khan says. He says another convert had to reassure his brother, who asked, "You're not going to kill me in my sleep, are you?" And yet there's little evidence that negative perceptions...
...feeling very emotional," she says. "Really tight in the chest." It's not parting with the junk that's affecting her; more the realization that they're about to leave their home of 10 years, a three-bedroom, open-plan house that Zig built himself in his spare time, with a little help from family and friends. "We lived in the shed for a year," says Jennifer, who'll miss the Sydney bluegum floorboards-secret-nailed-most of all. "But the new owners have promised not to carpet over them." She's sad, but looking ahead. "This," she says...
...Amid a humorless summer at the movie theater, here's a comedy with horsepower to spare...
...that would take at least three years and cost upward of $1 billion, according to Dr. Riad Kahwaji, the Lebanese founder of the Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis, a think tank in Dubai. Right now, its 1960s-era American and Soviet armor is so obsolete that spare parts are no longer available. Its only air force consists of 16 very old Huey helicopters that pilots call "flying coffins"; it has no navy except for four or five patrol boats; no border sensors; no night vision goggles; and minimal special forces. "The Lebanese army needs to focus...