Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breaking point over the city's anti-poverty program, which has been snarled from the start. Yorty rejected demands by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity that he accept representatives of "the poor" on his anti-poverty board, arguing that private citizens should not be deputed to spend public money−though virtually every other major U.S. city had adopted this approach. Yorty later retreated, consented to an expanded board, including some representatives of private groups. Yet, though OEO has pumped $17 million into the city for various programs, it has held up another $20 million for projects that...
...some parlors compensate by renting out bamboo poles so flimsy that they often snap in two when a fish is hooked. Some observers have linked the fishing fad to Japan's recent economic recession. Said one: "The people have much time to spare but little money to spend, and the parlor is just the thing for them to use much of the former and little of the latter...
Robinson ended his 27-minute speech loud applause by calling for responsible protest and declaring, "It is one thing to spend a few years in jail, quite another to becomes accomplices of these Fascist butchers...
...right vacation home, people occasionally work out triple exchanges. A few summers ago, a farmer from Republic, Ohio, wanted to take his family to Detroit to race a high-stepping trotting horse. But the exchange house the agency had listed belonged to a Detroit schoolteacher who wanted to spend his vacation in New York. The impasse was finally breached by a Manhattan professor who wanted some country air. The Detroit schoolteacher took over the professor's Manhattan flat; the farmer got the schoolteacher's house outside Detroit; and the professor and his family spent their summer...
...bowed to election-year pressures and decided to increase subsidies to its faltering coal industry, which already receives more than $150 million a year in subsidies. If the European Coal and Steel Community approves, Bonn will pick up another $11 million tab this year in order to let miners spend part of their time at repair work instead of digging, will guarantee $60 million in bank credits to buy surplus coal and spend $40 million more over four years to store...