The bungalows are spacious (nearly 600 square feet) but spare, with extra-firm mattresses and daybeds, stark white fabrics, and unadorned wood and woven-pandanus walls.

FORBES: Tikehau, French Polynesia

Trust me: Planning ahead will save a tremendous amount in legal bills and spare everyone a lot of extra emotional strain.

FORBES: The Corporate Equivalent Of A Kevlar Vest

My ancient cell phone's gas gauge is similarly overoptimistic, and as its aging battery holds less charge than ever, the extra-big spare keeps me connected.

FORBES: Spare Batteries

And you've got an extra, so spare me the moan.

ENGADGET: 'Twas the night before...

Better on-time performance, for instance, requires spare planes, backup crews, extra mechanics on duty, and so on.

FORBES: The Root Cause Of Your Customer's Anger

As peers began the second day of report stage debate on the Welfare Reform Bill on 14 December 2011, crossbench peer Lord Best introduced an amendment to limit the penalties to those households with two or more spare bedrooms and those with one extra room who have been offered suitable alternative accommodation.

BBC: Government defeated over 'bedroom tax'

How wonderful it would be if a cut in interest rates, 60, 000 extra teachers and some new roads could spare the French from all this.

ECONOMIST: The euro crisis

Tenants in social housing will have their benefit reduced by 14% if they have a spare bedroom or 25% if they have two or more extra rooms.

BBC: Steve Webb

After all, the IMF might formally lend the extra money to Indonesia, but then use the spare resources, freed up by that fresh financing, to lend more to Europe.

BBC: Draghi's message for artful euro-dodgers

From 1 April, changes to housing benefit affecting working-age social housing tenants deemed to have spare bedrooms will mean a 14% cut for those with one extra room and of 25% for those with two or more.

BBC: Brick up spare rooms, urges Labour MP Frank Field

Notts claimed the extra half hour and wrapped things up with an over to spare as Franks bowled Tahir and Chris Woakes slashed to second slip.

BBC: Warwickshire blown away by Nottinghamshire attack

This lens is a combination of Olympus's superb lens technology, and the spare-no-expense design process by including DSA (Dual Super Aspherical) and EDA (Extra-low Dispersion Aspherical) lenses in the lens group, for the high depictive quality equal to that of Olympus interchangeable SLR ZUIKO DIGITAL lenses.

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