Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest volley, the chiefs of McDonnell Douglas and five other defense-industry giants urged President Bush last week to seek congressional approval quickly for Saudi Arabia's order for 72 of the combat jets and 100 spare engines. "There are those who advocate a wait-and-see posture," the CEOs wrote the President, "but time is something we simply don't have." Unless the sale (long-term value: $13 billion) goes through, the McDonnell Douglas subsidiary that builds the planes in St. Louis and Tulsa will begin a shutdown of its F-15 assembly lines this summer. McDonnell Douglas spokesman...
Brown's amazing resurrection is linked to his small-contributions-only 800 number, which has kept his ascetic, spare-couches-and-coach-seats crusade alive with $3.5 million in pledges and $2 million in actual contributions. Brown may be only the vessel of protest against big-money politics and Clinton's too-slick-for-his-own-good image. But after months lost in what Brown calls "the dark hole of media nonexistence," he is suddenly running nearly even in the Clinton campaign's private polls handicapping the decisive April 7 New York primary...
...CAPTION: Where would you rather go in your spare time...
...Harvard has really helped him in his fiction writing. "I took English Car, which was quite a good class, [but] on the other hand I got away with doing very little." Before the class he approached writing in a "dillitantish" way, only dabbling with it in his spare time...
...more we engage the issues that are on people's minds, the better," he says. Something seems to be working. In a lean year for the economy and advertising in general, we're going to have a better first quarter than we did in 1991. Maybe he can spare some golf tips...