Word: spare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spare us the Garlanding. The rage in this case properly belongs to the victim, to her family...
...have had to examine our self-reliance. When the U.S. was a fully committed member of ANZUS, we had two days' ammunition and no spare parts. Well, we have had to change that, and it has cost us. We have had to spend money for equipment that otherwise would have been provided by the U.S. on the former paternalistic basis. Our message is that our position on the nuclear question is resolved, and it will continue. We are disposed to be cooperative with great powers and small powers, but we will not do so at the cost of our nuclear...
...income families: 73% of the women complain of having too little leisure, as do 51% of the men. Such figures produce no end of questions for sociologists, and everyone else, to stew over. Why do we work so hard? Why do we have so little time to spare? What does this do to us and our children? And what would we give up in order to live a little more peaceably...
...Spare Change...
...USSR's smaller economy has been unable to support both a military buildup and a high standard of living. Although the Soviets devoted up to twice as much of their (smaller) GNP to the conventional and nuclear arms race, the U.S. could match this expenditure and still have enough "spare GNP" for toasters, cars, VCRs and CD players...