Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the past four years Tobacman studied physics while spending his spare time working in homeless shelters and doing research for a professor in the economics department. Though a seemingly eclectic college career, it is one that flows naturally into his work in Indonesia...
...there is a happy medium here. You can use the more level playing field to great advantage. You see a product you like, a store you enjoy, a way-cool website--now you can do more work on it in your spare time than ever before. You can get e-mail alerts about it. You can chat about it with others. You can get comfortable with the fundamentals as never before. And if it goes down, you can buy more rather than kick it out in a panic. If your tax situation permits, you can take a quick gain without...
MARGIN OF SAFETY For years, doctors have tried to spare women from having a mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ, a noninvasive form of breast cancer. Instead, they cut out only the cancerous cells and then irradiate the breast. Now a major report shows that women may be able to avoid radiation too--as long as doctors remove a 1/2-in. margin of tissue along with the problem cells. That sure beats getting zapped, which is expensive, time consuming and may make future mammograms difficult to read...
Knowles says that as buildings are renovated and repaired, spare space--"whether in attics or basements"--will be reserved for student needs...
...cannot allow live kidneys to be sold at market. It would produce a society in which the lower orders are literally cut up to serve as spare parts for the upper. No decent society can permit that...