Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rising expenses and dwindling alumni support have led to the Bat's present problems. "We haven't been going out of our way to spend money," one officer said, "but every-day costs keep going...
...with the increase. In the resulting snarl of tape and paper, countless buyers have either received the wrong confirmation slips and stock certificates or failed to receive any at all. As they struggle to straighten out the mess, brokers earning upward of $50,000 a year have had to spend as much time doing the work of $80-a-week stock clerks as they do studying the stocks they sell so profitably. For the past two weeks, the market has had to close early to give brokers a chance to restore some order...
...Period. Another way of decorating is through the "ten-percenter," often a dilettante who, with no formal design training and as little as two years of experience working with a decorator, obtains a wholesale discount card and works for 10% of what the customer intends to spend. To the dismay of reputable professional decorators, who usually take the entire 30% to 40% retail markup as their fee, "ten-percenters" are overrunning the field. "You have to stand in line at the fabric houses because of them," sighs one San Francisco decorator...
...elected to spend the night at the Central Square lock-up, although a bonding commissioner said they could pay a $3-dollar fee and leave on their own recognizance. They are scheduled to be arraigned this morning in the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex...
Harvard President Nathan Pusey has been known to sigh in private about the amount of time he must spend picking new deans for his university. There are nine major deans in all, and there have been twelve changes since Pusey took over...