Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three weeks ago, we called for President Clinton to resign. Today, with the House voting to launch an open-ended impeachment inquiry, it seems clearer than ever that only resignation could spare us months and months more of detail and debate about a scandal we would all love to forget...
Dropped out, kicked out or expunged, Hearst completed his formal education without a diploma. Luckily for him, his father happened to have a paper that he could spare: The San Francisco Examiner. This first of Harvard's famous dropouts managed to double the paper's subscription in just a year; by then, he was well on his way to becoming one of the century's most notorious media moguls. Unlike the new crop of deserters, though, Hearst discovered no latent love of his alma mater in later life; Harvard did not see a cent of the $200 million he left...
...began and impressed with her own performance. When John F. Kennedy Jr. came on the show, she could not fail to mention that she and Maria Shriver were the best of friends. Surprise, surprise. Two wealthy and prominent women obsessed with their self-image hang out together in their spare time...
...long as she can remember, Candace Scott, 35, has suffered from a consuming addiction. Every spare cent goes to feed her habit, and her husband is hooked just as hard. O.K., so collecting items related to Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general turned President, is not as harmful as, say, crack cocaine. But it is now an obsession turbocharged by technology...
...Winfrey announced her intention to make her show more meaningful. In 1996 she started an on-air book club. In 1997 she launched the Angel Network, an ongoing campaign to spur her viewers into doing good works, like building houses for needy families, volunteering at local schools and saving spare change to fund college scholarships. She recently added a regular segment to her show titled "Remembering Your Spirit," which focuses on the rather lofty goal of soothing viewers' souls. "Oprah set the standard in daytime television," says fellow daytime host Rosie O'Donnell. "She consistently maintains a decency and morality...