Word: spartanic
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...includes the well-connected children of Communist officials. The favored youth have a far better chance than most of getting good jobs or traveling abroad after graduation. Faced with a steep rise in the cost of living as a result of the reforms, many students are finding their already spartan daily lives less and less tolerable. Says a Peking university student: "Peasants are getting rich, workers get bonuses, but we still get our measly fixed allowance...
...After Spartan Motors posted record first-quarter sales--which included a 65.7% jump in RV chassis sales over the same period last year--CEO John Sztykiel took a road trip from company headquarters in Charlotte, Mich., to meet and greet investors from Boston to Chicago. As his 41-footer swung (gingerly) through Manhattan, he spoke with TIME's Julie Rawe...
...TIME Spartan also makes fire truck and ambulance chassis. Has the Department of Homeland Security been good...
...information about the computer society’s illustrious alums; rather, he’d found a hole in the code behind the web page, a way to run programs on HCS’s server. He made quick work of defacing our home page, replacing it with a spartan battle flag (still visible online at http://hcs.harvard.edu/hackedindex.shtml) announcing that “Unknown Core Own3d Harvard.” “Brazil rlz,” the attackers noted...
...play’s action transpires on a spartan, black brick stage. Marrinan and Chen have dressed the set walls and ceiling with chicken wire—giving the stage the effect of a bomb shelter or asylum. A small television set, broadcasting static, sits at the front right of the stage, and a small table and serving tray, at the stage’s rear left, comprise all of the play’s major props...