Word: spares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million (v. $5.5 million for the Mirage) per basic airplane, could, if 1,500 planes are in fact sold, add $4.3 billion to the credit side of the U.S. trade balance during the next ten years. The long-range total could be even higher; such extras as spare parts and technical additions could boost the per-plane price to $7.6 million...
...particularly the more than 800 metropolitan-area members currently on the Harvard Club rolls, the problem of finding a place to gather for lunch or a few drinks is not a pressing one. And yet this lack of a clubhouse and the question of what to do with the spare $15,000 are two issues that go a long way towards explaining how alumni in a given city operate. And in Philadelphia's case, the issues illuminate the roles that alumni play both as an elite in a major American city, and as graduates of a college that still strongly...
Messman William F. Bellinger, 52, of Houston: "Every spare moment I scribbled in my diary. For some reason these Cambodian guys never confiscated my pad. But one of them lifted the pen out of my pocket and asked for it. Very polite like. They never took things off you without asking...
...reason for David's fear - is absent. The only secret here is in the title. Some years back, Robert Enrico made a highly regarded short film of Ambrose Bierce's An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. His new film is turned out with the same sort of spare, elliptical edginess, but it lacks the force of Bierce's classic surprise ending...
...uncommonly successful mixture of fact and fiction. Far Tortuga is a treatise on turtling, an account of the dying days of sailing ships on unspoiled waters, and a history of a locale that winter tourists tripping through the Caribbean rarely see. Most memorably, it is a spare adventure tale about simple men driven to the extremities of pain and death by ignorance, greed, weakness and inexplicable fate. ∙Paul Gray