Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carrying my backpack, so I guess I didn't look right," she says. Down to her last $7, she bought a doughnut for dinner and spent the night on a park bench. Unable to afford even a cheap miniskirt, she sat down in an alley and pulled out her spare blue jeans. After carefully marking off a line just below the crotch, she cut off both pant legs using the saw blade of her Swiss Army knife, a gift from her dad. At 9 that evening she was back on Sunset, peering nervously at each passing car while attempting...
...tactics caught the Bosnian Serbs, who had come to discount the Muslims' fighting ability, by surprise. Bosnian Serb soldiers have been demoralized by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's decision last August to close his border with Bosnia, cutting off fuel and spare parts for the Bosnian ! Serb army. Its longstanding edge in mobility and firepower -- a heavy-weapons arsenal 10 times as big as the Bosnian government's -- is diminishing as fuel and supplies dwindle. Less fuel also means fewer rotations back home, hurting morale...
...public on Saturday that he's in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, an incurable ailment that causes a progressive loss of mental faculties. Reagan said he and his wife Nancy want to promote public awareness of the disease. "I only wish there was some way I could spare Nancy from this painful experience," he wrote. "When the time comes I am confident that with your help she will face it with faith and courage...
Sander, who lives in a Hamburg mansion filled with minimalist art, describes her design philosophy as "less and luxe." She favors spare lines and expensive fabrics; she eschews loud colors and elaborate prints; she loathes accessories. She grew up in a modest Hamburg suburb and has said her taste developed in reaction to the kitsch and consumerism that dominated postwar Germany. "Ever since I was young, I would look at a woman and think she could look much classier, much more powerful, sophisticated and elegant," she says. "That's what always counted for me, not that obviousness that...
...spare time, Wambold was "a keen golfer," according to Dingman, and enjoyed playing drums in a band. He was taking classes in finance at Northeastern University, Norma Wambold said...