Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...science, but what Lopez offers instead are a dozen fictional sketches from his staked-out territory at the edge of the natural world. The stories are slight, and the term note suggests sketchbook impressions, perhaps, for canvases that might someday be painted. Thus slyly discounted by their author, these spare narrations carry surprising weight. One story, Teal Creek, is nothing more than a teenager's recollection of coming instinctively to respect a rural hermit's solitude. Although Lopez is known for wavering dangerously close to poetic prose, here he leaves all the right things unsaid, and the silence resonates...
...Piper Jaffray fund. Her goal had been to park the money for several years until she got her degree from the University of Washington and settled into a house with her three-year-old daughter. "I could have bought a house, paid cash and had money to spare to pay the taxes," said Lingenfelter, who is suing Piper to recover at least some of her losses...
EugensKoh '96-'97 writes about technology issues for The Crimson. He is Remote Staff Manager, Media Services, at America Online, Inc. In his spare time, he composes soundtracks for CD-ROMs and hosts "New Releases," a weekly radio program an WHRB...
...That machine went down because there was no spare space on the drive," Steen said...
With more women freed from repeated childbearing, each child can potentially have a more generous share of attention and resources. If, for example, Hillary had six children instead of just Chelsea, she wouldn't have had many moments to spare for volunteer work with the Children's Defense Fund. "It takes a village to raise a child," according to the African adage, and that ratio of resources to child might be good for the villages as well as our children...