Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion in 1978. In a nation of 39.8 million, 4 million are now jobless, and as many as 2 million are homeless because of the war. Some observers believe that much of private industry will come to a standstill by spring because of a lack of raw materials and spare parts...
...best of friends, and share a bedroom in the kibbutz. Dror wears glasses and looks professorial. Nimrod has a dreamer's face. His brown bangs are cut evenly like a monk's over a pair of eyes the same shade of brown. The boys' room is spare, full of sunlight and, like most boys' rooms, ridiculous. On the wall hang pictures of two white kittens, a deer, Popeye and Olive Oyl, and an El Al jet. The boys have done some pictures of their own. Dror displays a drawing of Begin and Sadat, both saying "Peace is going to come...
When Poland was forced to reduce its borrowing, the country began to suffer from a lack of spare parts for the spanking new equipment already in place. Round and round the vicious circle spun. The nation's factories operated in 1981 at only 60% of capacity. To make matters worse, poor harvests from 1974 to 1980 ravaged the country's agriculture, which Gierek had foolishly ignored in favor of industrial development, despite the fact that agriculture accounts for 20% of Poland's domestic gross national product. Moreover, a disproportionate amount of supplies and equipment went to the inefficient state farms...
...group. Some stores honored what was called the "night list": shoppers reserving a place in the next morning's queue by signing a piece of paper attached to the door. Still, to be on the safe side, many Poles showed up at 5 a.m. Families with zlotys to spare began hiring pensioners who had time on their own to stand in the hated queues that curled through the gray streets of Poland. Some parents even "rented" their young or disabled children to shoppers who used them as an excuse to jump the lines...
...competition for Americans' spare cash has inspired visions of giant financial supermarkets, where customers could make one stop for services ranging from savings accounts and stocks to insurance. This year several of the largest U.S. companies went further in that direction by moving to acquire investment firms. American Express snared Shearson Loeb Rhoades; Prudential Insurance purchased Bache; Sears reached a preliminary agreement to buy Dean Witter; BankAmerica plans to absorb Charles Schwab...