Word: spartan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Taking my turn at the counter, I ordered most of the spartan menu: one double-double (double meat, double cheese), one cheeseburger, one french fries, a large Coke and a vanilla shake. The young order-taker, in his paper hat, was unenthusiastic but perfectly polite. "You want onions on your burgers?" he asked. I readily assented, and he shuffled...
...Taking my turn at the counter, I ordered most of the spartan menu: one double-double (double meat, double cheese), one cheeseburger, one french fries, a large Coke and a vanilla shake. The young order-taker, in his paper hat, was unenthusiastic but perfectly polite. "You want onions on your burgers?" he asked. I readily assented, and he shuffled...
...foundation is as spartan in structure and style as an Internet start-up. There are just 25 employees, in contrast to 525 for the venerable Ford Foundation. The Gates Foundation staff members wade through more than 3,000 serious funding requests each month. And that doesn't count the perpetual-motion machines and colonic-cleansing devices with which promoters could save the world if only Bill and Melinda would throw a few million dollars their way. Worthy projects are filtered up by Stonesifer, Dr. Gordon Perkin and Bill's dad for review by Bill and Melinda...
...majority of boomers, your career has hit a brick wall, you haven't saved enough, your pension is underfunded, your health is deteriorating, even the medical advances that will probably extend your life will, in an especially cruel paradox, probably mean that late life will be meaner and more spartan. You'll have a hard time selling the house that you considered your nest egg (the generation behind just won't have enough buyers). And your neighbors' children, simultaneously burdened with the cost of your aging and victimized by the one thing you'll hold onto--your political power--will...