Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sudan. U.S. support for Mubarak must strike a careful balance so as not to cast him as little more than a U.S. puppet, imperiling his fledgling hold on his country. The U.S. may also have difficulty delivering on its weapons promises, for the Pentagon has few arms to spare. Both M60 tanks and air defense missiles, for example, are in short supply...
...Jordan, some of the obsolete Soviet weapons that it is replacing with American arms. In the midst of the fighting, France delivered to Iraq four Mirage jets that had been ordered before the war broke out. Iran has turned to North Korea and even Israel in search of spare parts and supplies. Many of the deals have been negotiated by shadowy European middlemen who deal in cash commissions, not moral questions...
...adds: "Now that everyone's schedule is in order for the fall, an internship is in order for the fall, an internship is an excellent way to fill spare time productivity...
...demanded an elaborate naturalistic set--not the Ex's style, to be sure--director Bill Rausch is exploring the effects of gray paint and suspended bare trees (borrowed from the Harvard Forest) to create the "cold, stagnant environment where nothing ever changes"--the one usually associated with Wharton's spare style...
...city will spend about $3 million in the next few years repairing its water system because, as public works commissioner Conrad Fagone said yesterday, "it's just getting old." The water system is currently running at normal capacity only with the aid of a spare pump at the Fresh Pond reservior public works facility. Last week a massive electrical charge, caused by an explosion at the Rindge Towers apartment buildings in North Cambridge, blew out one of the three pumps used to bring water from the reservoir into the main system...