Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city already seemed beyond redemption in 1973 when Young, pitted against a white law-and-order Republican in a hard-fought campaign, squeaked into city hall with only 12,000 votes to spare. Still scarred by the 1967 race riots, Detroit had the highest per capita murder rate in the nation and within six months faced a budget deficit of $103 million. To combat crime and regain the confidence of the predominantly black city, Young pushed integration of the police department-in 1973 the force was only 15% black compared with 40% today-and assigned more officers to foot patrols...
...performances during the two-week contest in Fort Worth were strictly center court. Impressed by his emotionally spare, but powerful and nearly flawless technique, the eleven-member international jury gave the Paris-born, Brooklyn-raised musician the nod over 38 other entrants. A victory on the high Cs is nothing new to Schub-in 1974 he won the Naumburg competition and three years later the Avery Fisher Prize-but the Van Cliburn win carries a $ 12,000 cash award, a recording contract and two years of solo and concerto appearances...
...this does not mean we will spare any effort to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes...
Considering that Early Days goes virtually nowhere, it covers an amazing amount of ground. Through Kitchen's lips, Storey has his spare, harsh, tender say about love, life, time, memory and death, about the lust for and loss of power, and of how blood relatives lacerate one another through the shifting values and visions of each new generation...
Even if it's part time. This year, Se-jin roamed the country for medical school interviews. Meanwhile, he played teaching fellow in Biochem 10, the introductory Biochemistry course, while spending every spare moment in the lab. "I did absolutely zero work in other courses," he laughs. But he did enough to get accepted at Johns Hopkins Medical school where he will pursue both an MD and a Ph.D. His research will continue on viruses, this time animal tumor viruses, under the direction of Dr. Dan Nathans, 1976 Nobel Laureate. That's seven more years of school, including summers...