Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contract's drivers are on the road about 80 hours a week, mostly hauling spare auto parts and other freight for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. The new drivers are needed because the company, which already has 1,200 trailers based at eight terminals from Detroit to Beaumont, Texas, is planning to expand to Atlanta and New York City. Anyone in good health is welcome to apply, but farmers will be given preference. "They've got a good work ethic," explains Lacy. "Our people work long hours. This just isn't for everybody...
Although Aquino showed personal compassion for Marcos in the interest of national unity, she made it plain that she would spare no effort to reclaim the vast fortune the Marcos family is believed to have spirited out of the country over the years. She announced the creation of a Cabinet-level Presidential Commission on Good Government, headed by former Senator Jovito Salonga, 65. One of the panel's tasks will be the recovery of an estimated $2 billion in "hidden wealth" that the Marcos family has surreptitiously squirreled away in the U.S. and Switzerland. Salonga said he had already secured...
Throughout the House and Senate, lobbyists for interests ranging from commercial-waterway users to child-nutrition advocates are laboring to spare their favorite federal subsidies from the exigencies of deficit reduction...
...book as a mandate for "a policy of progressively severe punishment to replace the social experimentation of recent years." The theory as formulated emphasizes the role of constitutional and environmental factors in determining criminality; Koch ignores the environmental aspect, seizes the "genetic" one, and demands that we "don't spare the rod" to those who "rape and break heads...
Balding and athletic, Jarvis lived with his wife Marcia in a sunny lemon- yellow house six blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach, Calif. He passed his spare hours practicing classical guitar, playing squash and, of course, bicycling. Five summers ago, he and Marcia spent the summer touring Canada on a tandem bicycle...