Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Helou seems far from finished. Next on his lengthy list are top men in the government ministries, the customs, the police and the military. He may even take on the faction-ridden, absentee-prone Parliament itself, whose members spend much of their time lobbying to place themselves or friends in key civil service slots. Remarked one member of Parliament last week, more (at this stage) in wonder than in rage: "The tame man we elected has turned into a tiger...
...commentator observed, offers "no power, little work and less money." Robert Graves, the retiring incumbent, picked up the annual $980 the professorship provides by delivering three lectures within eight weeks last year. Reason: for tax purposes, Graves is registered as a company in Liechtenstein and can only spend three months a year in Britain. Neither of this year's candidates-American Robert Lowell and Briton Edmund Blunden-bothered to campaign for the seat...
Their influence reaches worldwide; they have no time to spend up in ivory towers because they are so often up in jet planes. On a recent trip to see how well the University of the Philippines was using an improvement grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Notre Dame's Father Theodore Hesburgh and Michigan State's John Hannah discovered that Princeton's Robert Goheen and Cornell's James Perkins had just left, after checking up on the use of U.S. foreign-aid funds. While there, they met Indiana's ex-president, Herman Wells, back from...
...most part wasting their year at Harvard by treating it as a time for trade schooling. He confuses the issue at times by seeming to approve of such an approach by specialists in law, education, or science, but his main contention nevertheless rests on the assumption that Niamey Fellows spend too much time on too narrow a range of subjects. Even if this were necessarily a bad thing--and again Artery points approvingly to the example of Anthony Lewis of The New York Times to illustrate that it does not have to be--his assumption not be correct. There...
...example, he concluded from a statement of mine on baby-sitting being a major expense for Nieman Fellows that I am missing out a t Harvard because "He and his wife spend most of their evenings in Belmont" (where I live...