Word: spares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would restore balance. He went to work at the good country hour of 7:30 a.m. and got back home to dinner regularly at 6:30 p.m. He wrote his staff a memo saying that they needed rest and time with their families. Carter even opened up a little spare time in the mornings to think by himself. He went to the opera one Sunday afternoon and returned to Plains on a weekend to stroll along the main street...
...decision-announced during the Secretary's visit-canceling the transfer to Israel of the devastatingly powerful CBU-72 concussion bombs. But Sadat emphasized that his country's crippled economy needs continued financial support from the U.S. and that his armed forces require new weapons and spare parts, since they are no longer being supplied by the Soviet Union...
...children's play, Revenge of the Space Pandas, as well as Woods, a celebration of heterosexual love-no longer, he laments, "a hot item on the shelf of American commerce." Mamet has joined in the celebration, though he remains a bachelor and currently lives alone. In his spare moments he is working on the film scenario of Sexual Perversity and a new adaptation of the old Alec Guinness film, Last Holiday. The theater is his first love, however, and he has no intention of going Hollywood in any big way. "I don't want to break into...
...good thing, I figured, but I didn't realize just how good it was until I telephoned my friend Whacker up at North Central State. Whacker, you see, claims to have been doing this kind of research for years, "in a little p-3 facility I built in my spare time out in my garage using plans pirated from an unpublished 1956 issue of 'Popular Gene Mechanics...
Rules limited each driver to two mechanics, who could work on his battered vehicle for just two hours a day. Some drivers carried spare parts in the trunks of cars driven by friends and made their own repairs. For the big factory teams, there were designers and mechanics on call in 40-ft., parts-stuffed support vans. The difference between the amateurs and the pros was evident in other ways; the John Deere team, in training for three months, was forbidden the nightly boilermakers and sat off to the side of each stop, drinking ginger ale and plotting strategy...