Word: fritter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arguments made by the Alabama anti-lottery movement don't find favor with a wide range of lottery critics across the country. Even though its proceeds go to good causes, they say, such gambling is inherently a regressive tax on the poor, whose comparitive desperation may tempt them to fritter away precious funds for the slim chance of cashing in. "The anti-lottery contingent was painting pictures of people spending their food money on lottery tickets," says Holmes. "The pro-lottery camp chafes at the idea of government protecting adults from risky behavior, and argues that the profits from state...
...took as much as I could take and worked ashard as I could work," says Goodman. "I had notime to fritter away...
...other guy on the platform" at Clinton's speeches, as one of his aides puts it. To that end, Gore in the past six months has held 16 town-hall meetings around the country to hear federal employees bewail the silly rules they work % under and the money they fritter away. Gore has recruited a full-time staff of 200 mostly young aides (supplemented by about 800 part-timers from inside and outside government), who have torn into their job with remarkable zest. The atmosphere last week in their workshop, a second-story suite above a McDonald's restaurant...
...usually worked deep into the night, wearing out ranks of stenographers as he manically dictated memos, stream-of- consciousness-style, in an attempt to maintain control over every detail of his films and of a business and personal life that yearly grew more chaotic. Eventually Selznick managed to fritter away financial interest in his greatest claim to fame, Gone With the Wind, a carelessness that cost him millions he could have used in his desperate final days...
Someone in Grays discovered Pinochio's and that great Eastern institution, the slice. We would congregate for pizza just after midnight and come home to work and, in my case, fritter away some more time. On day four, I wrote "Critics are raving about Ashvin...