Word: expend
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...turn, small departments often do not have the manpower to expend the time needed to make enough appointments to actually increase the size of the department...
...example, every time you have a conversation with a friend, you are exchanging conversational "services" for an important but immeasurable kind of mutual benefit. You expend some time and effort because you place more value on the joys of friendship than you place on the resultant time and energy lost. Similarly, in each and every case, those who exchange goods and services value the things they are receiving more than they value the things they are giving up. As a result, all parties are enriched as different kinds of property flow from those who value them less to those...
...exchange for economic aid and bilateral warhead reductions?which would allow Bush to go forward with a clear conscience. Opponents of nmd in Europe suspect that, sooner or later, America?s missile shield dreams will become a reality. And some have started to say that Europeans should not expend too much capital trying to stop it. ?Their time would be better spent praying the technological challenges prove too difficult to overcome,? says Dominique Mo?si of the French Institute on International Relations...
...three hours it takes to write this column. But now I see through their attempts to buy my soul's work through cheap trinkets like a corporate AmEx card and health benefits. Yes, we writers, we conjurers of phrases, we have been used like a...no, I will expend metaphors for the Man no longer. Not since I learned that the Writers Guild of America has issued a list of demands and will go on strike if they are not met. If they do, that means we'll all have to watch old stuff. Not remakes of old stuff...
...chaplain. "It's the best thing that came along," said John, who read several books a week and watched the Dodgers. "Nine days in the hospital [for surgery] was more than enough. Now I'm home, enjoying the life I have." He and Carol didn't expend energy on frequent trips to doctors; instead, the couple focused on saying goodbye. "When the time comes and he's gone, I won't have to look back and say, 'I wish I would have said that,'" said Carol, recalling that her dad passed away without ever speaking with her mother about...