Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewed by ordinary Frenchmen. They often left the impression that the old man was getting erratic. Perhaps the most damaging stance involved the Arabs and Israelis. Though France has only 520,000 Jews, many more French were incensed when De Gaulle extended an earlier arms embargo to include spare-parts shipments to Israel...
...patrol through the boondocks. "If we had a Harley motor in a frame like this," says Tomusho, "we'd really have something." The foursome would prefer tough scramblers, "with big drive sprockets, knobby wheels-and more vroom." Maintenance is also a problem because of the dust, and spare parts have to be bought in local Vietnamese shops; the U.S. Army does not stock them...
...matter little to the Governor. In three months in office he has marched without hesitation into every political minefield in sight. He has promised to "dismantle" Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine. He has set out to overhaul the state's fiscal program, and in his spare time to reorganize the state Republican party...
...capital gains. They now include not only securities and real estate, but ordinary dealing in timber and cattle breeding as well. Oil and other depletion allowances, which by Treasury estimates deprive the Government of $1.3 billion in revenue, have become the towering symbol of privilege and preference. They can spare oil companies and investors from taxes on 27½% of their revenue from operating an oil well. As long as a well produces, the depletion write-off continues, even if the original cost of exploration and drilling has been recaptured 19 times over-as typically occurs. Other treasures from...
...Most Western airlines are unlikely to buy the Soviet SSTs for reasons involving maintenance, operating economics and an unwillingness to rely on Russia for spare parts. Japan Air Lines, however, has signed an agreement with Russia's Aeroflot to share a trans-Siberian Tokyo-Moscow route, on which it will use the Soviet SSTs...