Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fate of $62 million worth of proposed U.S. military aid for El Salvador, and of $21 million intended for the contras. Indeed, some of the urgency of those decisions dissipated last month when the Administration released $32 million in discretionary credit to the Salvadoran military for ammunition and spare parts. The credit expires in 120 days. One of the few certainties about U.S. policy in Central America is that the interval between crises is never long. -By George Russell. Reported by Ricardo Chavira with the contras and Barrett Seaman/Washington
...them with some of the best sidemen ever to grace a dance floor or a recording studio, including Tenor Sax Player Lester Young, Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Drummer Jo Jones and Blues Singer Jimmy Rushing; and later backing the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. Although his elliptically eloquent, spare style of playing, influenced by Fats Waller, gave his band its characteristic texture, Basie slyly soft-pedaled his technique. "I just play my one or two notes and don't worry about keeping up," he said a couple of years...
...energetic curator of Harvard's Farnsworth and Woodberry Poetry Rooms at Lamont Library. Haviaras says he feels most closely in touch with his "life-fluids" at night, when he prefers to write. For years he has been filling his spare hours writing poetry and fiction, and this month Simon and Schuster published his second English novel. The Heroic...
Thomas S. Heintzman '86, a council member and a player on the rugby team, asked the council for "as much money as you can spare" towards the roughly $8500 cost of the group's travel expenses. The team qualified for the nationals by winning an Eastern regional competition Sunday...
...client is hit with a $40,000 or $50,000 bill. He says, 'My God, what have I gotten for this?' " Sometimes little more than a handshake. One arms dealer paid Gray $65,000 to help him make his case to the Pentagon on a foreign spare-parts deal. Gray set up a meeting for the client with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, but the arms dealer did not get the contract. Nor can Gray always deliver the handshake. The National Food Processors paid him a major fee largely in the hope that he could persuade President Reagan...