Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approved, and if it works, all the books would be on the shelves before the term begins, and the textbook department could spend its time adjusting for course enrollments and last-minute changes...
...public affairs, ABC somewhat less. The Cronkite and Huntley-Brinkley reports, which used to run for only 15 minutes, were increased to a half-hour in 1963; and ABC's Peter Jennings with the News will go to a half-hour this January. Together, the three networks will spend $148 million on news this year-their budgets have been boosted 200% from five years before...
That order is part of a nationwide surge toward atomic power. More than 60% of the new generating capacity ordered by utility companies so far in 1966 will be nuclear, as against only 22% last year. U.S. utilities have committed themselves to spend no less than $2.6 billion for nuclear power over the next six to seven years. Fifteen nuclear plants are already operating; nine more are under construction, 22 on order, and another half a dozen planned...
...student shape himself." He sympathizes with students who react against the impersonal university by turning to social action but warns that "a commitment to self" must precede a "commitment that takes them to the barricades." What students need are more free hours "for contemplation, for simply learning how to spend a quiet evening with oneself...
...course, there may be no profits to begin with. Once the discovery is in government hands, it may be the last anyone hears of it. All government-owned patents are in the public domain; any firm can use them. How many companies are going to spend their own time and money developing an invention when they know other companies can jump into the market at any time...