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...White House while recovering from the death of Hillary's 82-year-old father, Hugh Rodham. The First Lady's plea is familiar to any working woman. "We are trying to work it out that we have some more time just for ourselves. The job eats up every spare minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At The Center Of POWER | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...lineup card comes fully equipped with a perfect square destined to contain each player's position. Batters also, in fact, must field. I should qualify that. Batters like, say, Cecil Fielder, play defense in their spare time. Certain natural fielders, though they are not Fielders, are also granted one of those nine vaunted spots on a lineup card. For ten years, Cal Ripken Jr. has held his spot at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles...

Author: By Nancy E. Greene, | Title: In Ripken's Defense | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...signs and omens about the interior life of a forbidden country. Forbidden to him as well: the Chinese authorities have withheld release of some of his films. And yet Zhang still works in his homeland, against all odds and with great grace. Just like the heroine of his spare new film parable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire in Her Eyes | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Weston from About Hair says, "We had ads in Spare Change, the Unofficial Guide, Lighthouse, "he says. "Mostly, we count on [clients] telling about us to their friends...

Author: By Alex B. Livingston, | Title: CUT ABOVE THE REST | 4/24/1993 | See Source »

...word "modem" was coined to spare the everyday user from having to refer to the device's more descriptive but longer name: modulator/ demodulator.Simply put, a modem takes analogsignals coming in over the phone line and converts them to digital 0's and 1's your computer can understand, and vice versa. Like the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in your compact disc player, the modem is a link between the analog and digital worlds...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: P. C. CORNER | 4/6/1993 | See Source »

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