Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know is that Freshman Week is a concentrated sampling of what your social life will be like for the next year. If Harvard cared about its students, it would allow anyone who didn't love Harvard after Freshman Week an automatic transfer to Stanford or Amherst, to spare them a wasted and unhappy year. How come you can return anything you buy if it's unused, except for your freshman year...
Other Harvard students occupy their spare time with pressing political issues of the day, namely divestment of Harvard's $416 million of investments in South Africa-related corporations...
...Tisch operation is remarkably fat-free. Loews' Manhattan headquarters houses only 60 employees, less than .3% of the conglomerate's total work force. That spare staffing may enable Loews to move quickly when a good business opportunity is spotted. The chain of command is short, and word reaches the top quickly...
Other Harvard students occupy their spare time with pressing political issues of the day, namely divestment of Harvard's $416 million of investments in South Africa-related corporations...
...required, but by now the war had burned away this old feature writer's professional glibness. What Pyle had begun to send back home was some of the finest war reporting ever done. His folksiness fit the slow, edgy lulls between battles, and he knew how to suggest, in spare language that avoided Hemingway's staginess but clearly was learned from the early best of Hemingway, how it felt to stumble through the bloody...