Word: spartanism
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...typical 19th century opium den, where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size diorama, entered through an innocuous-looking tea shop. The poorer users could choose doses of low-grade opium self-administered in spartan surroundings. Better-heeled junkies could smoke pipes of pure opium prepared by servants in opulently furnished rooms. Lest visitors get carried away amid their reveries, the curators have mounted cautionary tributes to entertainers who overdosed, such as River Phoenix...
...spokesman. These days it's Aldi that has been making waves as it transforms the German retail landscape. Owners Theo and Karl Albrecht took over their parents' grocery store after the war and built it into a retail powerhouse. To keep costs - and prices - down, the stores are deliberately Spartan and understaffed, and feature a restricted number of staples, about 700 in total. The formula has been a smashing success: in the low-margin world of grocery retailing, where many chains earn a net return of just 1%, Aldi nets as much as 7%. The Albrecht brothers are now among...
...prayers and do the exercises the RSS had shown him," she says. It was this same focus that would see him leave Vadnagar at 17 to study politics in Gujarat's main city, Ahmadabad, returning only once?just for a day?30 years later. Embracing the spartan life of the devotee, he left his family and took nothing with him, not even his wife, Jashodaben, to whom he had been married as a child...
...difficulty of his job - knowing when Iraq is trying to thwart his inspectors, he says, will "be a matter of common sense." Until last week the closest Blix had come to Baghdad in recent years was the satellite photo of the Iraqi capital that dominates one wall of his spartan office at U.N. headquarters in New York. The space reflects both Blix's low-key personality as well as the fact that nobody took UNMOVIC that seriously until two months ago, when President Bush warned the U.N. to disarm Saddam or step aside. Suddenly, UNMOVIC was at the center...
...best corner chances—its sixth—the Crimson worked the ball behind the Spartan goalkeeper with short passes, but on the final touch, a well-positioned Michigan State defender broke up the play...