Word: sparely
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...look of the late 20th century in the U.S. "There are hardly any major designers who have not been influenced by the kind of American style Calvin epitomizes," notes Valerie Steele, a professor at New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology, Klein's alma mater. Indeed, his spare-chic ethos is reflected in the work of everyone from superstars like Donna Karan, Michael Kors and Miuccia Prada to up-and-comers like handbag designer Kate Spade. More significantly, it is the bedrock of the no-fuss aesthetic peddled by the Gap, J. Crew and Banana Republic, increasingly the purveyors...
Still, if a team played poorly, it is a sportswriter's duty to tell the truth. And while I tried to spare individuals, I had to let the public know when and why their teams were playing below their capabilities...
...useful would be to reach students not when they're already well on the way down, but when they're still in the air. It seems silly to intervene only at the latest possible stage; sure, it may prevent actual suicides, absolving Harvard of guilt, but it will not spare students the terror of the plummet...
...spare, dying fall of that coda lies an ocean of tears--and a sensibility of genius...
...course, the FEC argues that we need these limits in order to "democratize" the campaign fundraising process. Instead of only having "fatcats" fundraising for our candidates, all those "average citizens" who have a few hundred dollars to spare can determine which candidates will run and get a chance to be heard. But this is a concept of democratization that would only make sense to someone with the salary of a law professor or a federal bureaucrat. I don't know a single person in my family or neighborhood who would even think of giving something near a week's paycheck...