Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME correspondents who set out to bring the bare statistics on unemployment to life for this week's cover story, the job, oddly enough, was both easy and difficult. The easy part was finding sources to talk to; unemployed people usually have plenty of spare time. When Boston's John Yang telephoned to arrange an interview with a local parks department employee who had been laid off last April, the response was resigned: "Any time is fine. I've got nowhere to go." Says Yang: "That told me more about unemployment than any of the statistics...
Slipping in the polls and facing challenges from fellow Democrats, Carey announced last week that he would complete his second term this year, then retire from elective politics. He pulled out, he explained, partly to spare his wife the pressures of the campaign. He said he quit, exactly as he wed, all for love...
...superiority of conventional forces is necessary to defeat guerrilla groups, the 14,000-member Guatemalan army will not be large enough to do the job. Lucas talks of expanding his forces to 50,000, a costly chore. The army is also short of such critical items as helicopters and spare parts. Substantial help is unlikely to come from the U.S., despite the Reagan Administration's desire to halt Marxist expansion in Central America. Already concerned about Guatemala's human rights record, Congress undoubtedly would balk at providing new aid. The funds for the army therefore would have...
...lack of trying. In vast stretches of virtually unpopulated jungle, he built a string of airstrips, thousands of miles of roads traveled by hundreds of cars and trucks, a private railway to haul freight, a deep-water port, a hospital, a school and a giant service depot stocked with spare parts and equipment. Jari's capital, Monte Dourado (pop. 35,000), is a sprawling community of neat bungalows, town houses and apartments...
...year after Walsh. He is the custodian of his only child's memorabilia and his own memories. The "fundamentals" he preached to the boy were learned in the Navy, where Joe Sr. played all the games. He had filled out slowly and had been too spare to make any of the teams at Ringgold High, where Joey would star in three sports...