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...place of the Greek ideal--fitness of body as a necessary complement to fitness of mind--many Harvard undergraduates assume that their sports-inclined classmates are simply scholars in their spare time...
Wary U.S. taxpayers need to know that the $570 million buys only a stripped-down version of the plane. Spare parts and additional engineering would tack on about $2 billion to the total bill. And some government bean counters regard even that proposed $13.5 billion price tag as too low an estimate. The Pentagon believes the final price for another 20 planes would approach $20 billion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concludes that each new B-2 could cost $1.3 billion, for a total of $26 billion. ``I don't know where Northrop is coming up with their numbers,'' says...
...spare time, he worked on a musical encyclopedia which included biographies of famous (and not quite so famous) musicians throughout history. In order to ensure that competing publications did not rip off their work, my teacher and his colleagues would include one false biography to serve as a potential...
...time the men's hockey game had finished, the bus company had sent up a spare vehicle, so everyone was able to go home for the pure joy of studying for finals. For those scoring at home, Saturday marked the second straight bus mishap (the same piece of scrap metal, nonetheless) for the icemen--their bus broke down in Vermont after a game in Clarkson, and they had to wait two and a half hours until a spare vehicle was delivered...
...with most of their equipment, are gone. The former Soviet Army's strength of almost 3 million men is now down to less than 1.5 million. The defense budget has been slashed, leaving units in the field with no money for fuel, fleets rusting in port, planes grounded without spare parts...