Word: expend
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...Republicans and wasn't leaving because of "something funny" but for something principled? Finding a way to work with those like Jeffords, who saw him ruling from the right when he had promised to govern from the middle, would have taken the kind of effort Bush is loath to expend. The White House expressed no remorse. And on Wednesday, when Jeffords was with his colleagues and was about to go it alone, the eyes of all in the ceremonial room off the Senate floor filled with tears; not only would they be losing the majority, but they would be losing...
...Republicans and wasn't leaving because of "something funny" but for something principled? Finding a way to work with those like Jeffords, who saw him ruling from the right when he had promised to govern from the middle, would have taken the kind of effort Bush is loath to expend. The White House expressed no remorse. And on Wednesday, when Jeffords was with his colleagues and was about to go it alone, the eyes of all in the ceremonial room off the Senate floor filled with tears; not only would they be losing the majority, but they would be losing...
...stayed together and stayed relevant for as long as we have," says Stipe. "We can't possibly compete with Limp Bizkit and Britney Spears, and I have no real desire to. But as long as people are excited about our work, we're going to expend the energy to do it." Stipe later adds, for good measure, "I'm only two years older than Tom Cruise and three years older than Brad Pitt...
...Leahy denies the figure, launch customers such as Singapore Airlines, Virgin and Qantas are reportedly buying the A380 for as much as 40% off the original list price of $235 million--compared with $215 million for the biggest version of the 747. To recoup the $10.7 billion it will expend to birth the A380, Airbus must sell 250 of them in five years. "The company has an awful lot of eggs in that basket," says Paul Nisbet, an industry analyst at JSA Research in Newport, R.I. "The A380 will live or die on its own sales...
...Appeasing the Chinese” (Opinion, April 16). Apparently, George W. Bush is a coward for having the patience and humility to bring our boys back home safely with relatively little damage to Sino-American relations. Ross, on the other hand, is more than willing to expend other people’s lives to show those uppity Chinese who’s their daddy. If only the reigns of power were held by someone as brave as this Crimson columnist, then those Chinese wouldn’t be so cocky...