Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raiskin was the head of the Perspective last year and does volunteer work in her spare time...
...Russians may also be helping Iraq outside the diplomatic arena. Retired Colonel Victor Baranets, who served as press secretary to former Russian Defense Minister Igor Rodionov, believes Russia has "secretly supplied Iraq with several billion dollars worth of weapons and spare parts" since sanctions have been in place. He also thinks Moscow bought Baghdad's agreement to allow the U.N. inspectors to return to work two weeks ago with pledges of more supplies and full-scale military cooperation after sanctions are lifted...
...privilege of hearing one of the rare performances of Mozart's first symphony, composed when he was only eight. The symphony form was still in a formative phase at this time, and included only strings and a few select wind instruments. Mozart composed this piece in his spare time while attending his sick father in London, and, so the story goes, said to his sister Nannerl, "Remind me to give the horn something worthwhile to do!" If that were not enough to stagger anyone, there are moments of soaring loveliness in this Symphony. It has the clarity of sound...
...report from Human Rights Watch examined the records of 65 countries, and didn't exactly spare the rod when it came to stacking America up against the rest. "If the U.S. government persists in its dismissive posture toward international human rights law," said the group, "the international community should simply leave the United States behind...
...nyah-nyah-nyah files: Remember the TIME O.J. cover? The magazine took a heap of flak three years ago for darkening The Juice's mug, making the accused look, um, more sinister. Well now rival Newsweek, which surely didn't spare the rod back then, has been caught whitening--and straightening!--the teeth of America's mother-of-the-moment Bobbi McCaughey for its Monday cover...