Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...begin paying real estate taxes to the city of Los Alamos, which hopes eventually to attract private business and achieve a stable economy of its own. To smooth its path toward financial independence, the U.S. is donating Government-owned schools, a hospital and municipal buildings worth millions, will spend $1,000,000 to improve local utilities and will grant other subsidies to the city...
...payment hoped to eliminate. But the opposition was too strong on this point and home rule strategists were forced to compromise. Byrd and Natcher will retain their power. The Capitol, and not the District Building, will continue to be Washington's city hall--and Congress will inevitably continue to spend valuable time on local matters...
...veterans mental hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. When he was given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and passing out on the hospital lawn. "It's my opinion," said a harried doctor after locking up the patient, "that you're a hopeless alcoholic and should spend the rest of your life in this ward...
Learning to loathe isn't easy for a man who would much rather learn to love, and for a long time Hedges evades the issue. He sneaks off to spend the night with a "sordid woman"-he is shocked to discover that she doesn't have twin beds. He makes a pass at a cute trick who works for him-he is startled to get stabbed through the instep by her stiletto heel...
...difficulties or at least to modify them favorably." Techniques used by the psychiatric service are presumably the same as in private practice, despite the attempt to keep the number of visits per person down. "Always with scrupulous regard for privacy and confidentiality," reports the annual summary, "all staff members spend much time consulting with parents, roommates, friends, Faculty members, tutors, deans, and others who are involved in the quandries of any particular person...