Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite that impressive figure, their tax returns for the past six years show that Zaccaro and his wife may not have had much money to spare after maintaining three joint residences, plus her separate apartment in Washington, and putting three children through private schools. Over the past five years, they paid an average of 40% of their gross income annually in taxes, leaving them an average $103,035 in combined yearly income. This varied from a low of $80,188 in 1981 to a high of $150,982 last year...
...pilot who likes to restore vintage aircraft in his spare time, Knapp enjoyed being known as the Red Baron of the S & L industry. His biggest mistake was to gamble heavily that interest rates would fall. While other S & Ls hedged their bets by offering homeowners variable-rate mortgages, Knapp aggressively marketed fixed-rate mortgages at about 12.5% in the expectation of making big profits when interest rates fell. Instead, they rose slightly in the second quarter, putting the squeeze on F.C.A. To make matters worse, Knapp had permitted large institutional investments, many of which have deposits that exceed...
...like to kill a man, he grunts, "It was good."The town high school's star quarterback (Patrick Swayze) turns to tossing grenades soon after his father shouts, "Avenge me! Avenge me!" He refuses, however, to kill a wounded female comrade (Lea Thompson), so she borrows a spare grenade to blow up herself and an enemy soldier. Red Dawn is too crude and incoherent to be taken either seriously by Milius' ideological allies or frivolously by the nuclear-freezers. So how to explain the robust $8.2 million in ticket sales on its first weekend of release, when most...
Credit should also go to guitarist David Mcnair for his clear, ringing guitar playing (reminiscent of Peter Buck's guitar work for REM) and Stipe's prominent, graceful bass lines. Together, with Matthew Sweet's astute drumming, Stipe and Mcnair create a spare but rollicking sound that perfectly compliments the deceivingly playful tone of this...
...Iranians, moreover, are plagued by shortages of artillery, spare parts for tanks and protective gear against chemical warfare; meanwhile, Iraqi forces are well entrenched. To Western diplomats last week, even this of tension was a hopeful sign of progress...