Word: expendability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took the goal of joining the EU to end the incessant quarreling between Greece's two dominant parties and to convince them to expend their energies toward constructive ends such as curbing inflation to less than 3 percent and achieving a fiscal deficit of less than 3 percent. This is a major accomplishment in a country that has chronically used the economy as a springboard for free-riding...
...biggest problem Harvard will face internally this year is "keeping people happy with game time," Delaney-Smith said. But that shouldn't be a problem if the players expend all their energy running the floor...
...hoped-for outcome and its importance to the person's life goals has to be considered when weighing the decision about how much of one's resources to expend on the effort," Orr wrote...
...average credit card holder keeps the first credit card for 15 years, according to CCCS. Needless to say, this makes 18-year-old college first-years a tremendously attractive market for credit card companies--one they expend large advertising budgets on every year...
...college that we get to try out all the zany things that we know we might never pursue in our grown-up lives. But it's also here that we learn how to make choices about how to spend our time and expend our energy. I know there's a way to balance our true passions with our ill-fated pursuits, and I bet that Harvard students are smart enough to figure...