Word: spend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are some 30 million teens in the U.S., and they spend $12 billion each year. That enchanting fact has prompted publishers to go after a share of the teen green. The first adolescent stirrings were detected more than ten years ago when two events of major import to teendom coincided: the birth of Elvis Presley as an idol and the death of James Dean. Suddenly publications bearing either one's name were selling half a million copies. Soon magazines were riding, first, the Beatles, then the Rolling Stones, and now the Monkees. Currently, half a dozen monthlies...
...Science and Technology in 1962. President Johnson promoted him to Acting Under Secretary last February. Highly regarded in university circles-Virginia and Pittsburgh were also considering him for president-Hollomon has little educational experience. O.U. has taken care of that. Under the terms of his appointment, he will spend ten months in on-the-job training as president-elect, learning about the state and visiting other campuses to see the nature of their problems...
...spend money, not to raise it," says the Metropolitan Opera's resident patrician Rudolf Bing. But the general manager of the Met is not opposed to receiving contributions-and last week he got a big one. Eastern Air Lines announced that it was giving the Met $500,000, which will enable Bing & Co. to produce a new Ring cycle of four Wagnerian operas to be presented in as many years...
...stick entirely to the hours spent in actual meetings with students. It seemed impossible to cope with the fact that one Teaching Fellow may be better prepared for assisting in a course than another, or that one Teaching Fellow for his own academic interests deliberately wants to spend more time on a course than another, or that one Teaching Fellow may be overly conscientious while another is fairly indifferent about his teaching duties...
...Steering Committee's views here, so that we can arrive at some sort of basis for the amount of work required which we can actually live with and administer. Certainly we cannot each year ask all of the 900 Teaching Fellows to set down the number of hours they spend on their teaching duties. Perhaps the Steering Committee might first like to look at the fractions now used in evaluating tutorial; to us, though this is only a general feeling, these seem relatively heavy...