Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Surely there are soldiers with very powerful-looking guns, who spend their spare time digging through the neighborhood trash cans (including at times mine) to see if anyone has left a bomb. But they have not cordoned off the area just in case; they will take the risk and not take away the chance for the Prime Minister to live on a street just like any other Israeli, with neighbors, music, buses and a grocery store around the corner...
...Four knew that move-in is not about finding oneself or making first impressions or creating a new identity. Instead, it is about one thing: schlepping. More specifically, it is about schlepping large and unwieldy boxes filled with what couldn't possibly be anything other than a collection of spare bricks up four flights of broken stairs in 1,000-degree heat...
Then there is the ValuJet theory. On May 11, 1996, spare oxygen-generating canisters stowed as freight aboard ValuJet Flight 592 ignited and sent the DC-9 plunging into the Everglades. The generators had been mistakenly marked empty, and the crew never knew that the plane was carrying hazardous material. Could similar undeclared baggage have doomed Swissair 111? In 1990, air personnel discovered undeclared hazardous cargo--usually because it leaked or emitted a smell--on 63 occasions; by last year, that number had ballooned to 349. Shippers are still not required to disclose to air carriers the contents of their...
...designer, whose reputation was built on clothes of spare Germanic coolness splashed with a kinky technotwist, moved to New York City from Vienna in March. It wasn't long before he had unzipped a few ideas that had the Seventh Avenue establishment agog. First, he showed his entire fall collection in teensy pictures on the Internet, where (the horror!) anyone, not just an elite corps of editors, buyers and fashion insiders, could have a look at them. Now he's moved his spring show, which takes place in the fall, to September rather than waiting (the nerve!) until November after...
Bodies grown for spare parts? Cloning NBA champs? Whoever is thinking about doing these things has got to be kidding! If this happens, human beings will ultimately lose their originality. After reading your article, I was relieved to know that cloned humans would not be exactly the same as their parents because, as you wrote, genetics can only partly determine who we are. NABEEL KEBLAWI Vienna...