Word: spartanism
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...spartan-looking facility is designed to be the nerve center of military space activities. When complete, CSOC (pronounced see-sock) is expected to command and control most military satellite missions and space shuttle flights, jobs that are currently performed at the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif., and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. According to the Air Force, the first phase of construction (a subsidiary of Bechtel Group, Inc., alma mater of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, was awarded the contract) will be finished by the end of 1985, enabling CSOC...
...conceivable that Khomeini is actually faking his religiosity, that his Islamic scholarship and humble, spartan lifestyle are actually a front. Someone wrote a novel on the premise a few years ago, with Western intelligence agents waiting a generation to be called to active service...
...York City to start his own small business. He specialized in calibrating sophisticated electronic equipment to precise manufacturing standards. The minute attention to detail, the quest for accuracy, seemed to suit him. "Machines don't hurt you," he has sometimes said. He ran the business out of his own spartan, meticulous apartment, where he stored the equipment acquired from suppliers all over the city. In order to bid on bargains at auctions and sales, Goetz often carried several thousand dollars in cash with...
...successful securities lawyer. He barely trimmed his expenses and borrowed heavily to pay his state and federal taxes, maintain a 70-acre farm in Virginia and keep his five sons in private schools. After he moved out, Fedders was straining to support his family while living in a spartan one-bedroom apartment with ramshackle furniture he had bought from some departing college students...
Endgame is a minimalist play, calling for a Spartan amount of furnishings and a bare set. It is clearly meant to be an a historic play; nothing about the characters or the staging should imply a particular time or place. Atleast, this is how Beckett wrote it, conceived it, and copyrighted...