Word: expend
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With the rise of these rivals came one benefit: as time passed, the once hated Great Satan was no longer everybody's favorite whipping boy. Since the U.S. presence in the Middle East had wound down after 2008, it was no longer obvious why Islamist terrorists would expend their energies attacking American cities. That was why, by the 30th anniversary of 9/11, many younger Americans looked back on that event as a strange aberration...
...more oft-cited goals of a reengineered UC website include a centralized and streamlined room reservation system and an all-College events calendar. These goals are either too daunting or too redundant to justify the effort and funding the UC would have to expend...
...inscrutability of truth is the film’s leitmotif. Bonilla’s newscast carries the ironic title “One Hour With the Truth,” but Bonilla and his team expend more effort seeking the sensational and the spectacular than fact checking, and by the time they develop a serious interest in the truth, events make its revelation impossible...
...That way, courses with professors and head TFs who have the time and motivation to shop around their article lists can get quotes from many different companies, not just Gnomon and the Coop, potentially leading to lower costs. We doubt, at least at first, that many course leaders will expend the effort to do this. Instead, they will take the easiest path and continue using the HPPS-alternative that the PMD arranges. Here, the PMD can use the sheer amount of coursepack business it is representing to drive down printing and distribution prices for all coursepacks. The PMD should submit...
...expend our energies on how to distribute music. Will we have to chase illegal file services in the Seychelles and God knows where else? Yes. But most people will move to a more normal pattern of buying music. It's a long war, and this was an important battle to win. --By David E. Thigpen