Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass for a clinic. Attendants carry stacks of fresh linen through its quiet halls. Its pleasant central dining room keeps hospital hours: breakfast from 8 to 10, lunch at noon, dinner at 5. Its 228 tenants, each of whom is examined by city doctors at least twice a week, spend most of their time...
...Serkin. In the years since, Serkin has made the festival a center where outstanding soloists, chamber players and orchestral musicians come together for eight summer weeks to work and study in an atmosphere far removed from the usual professional pressures. Many turn down lucrative offers so that they can spend the season at Marlboro playing neglected or unknown works by famous and lesser-known composers. Serkin describes Marlboro as "the accumulation of great talents who inspire each other without competition in a spirit of unselfishness-which is not only rare but idealistic...
...built-in ice-cube makers and overhead infrared lamps. A tri-level restaurant affords virtually every table a front-row view of the ocean. Rockefeller's total costs come to an astronomical $100,000 per room-a handsome bet on the hope that intelligent and affluent tourists will spend the extra effort to get to his faraway paradise rather than stop short at Waikiki Beach...
This recent "teach-in" so corrupts any reasonable definition of teaching that only the most servile mind old accept such an outrageous misnomer. If it is the best we can offer, then the students involved might better spend their time swallowing goldfish and stuffing phone booths. Denaid W. Riegle, Jr. Harvard Business School
...often, say some Washington officials, the shipping executives give in to such demands because they know most of the costs will be carried by the Government. In fact, almost 75% of the seamen's wages are paid by federal subsidies. Critics believe that if the Government would spend less to subsidize wages and more to subsidize modernization and automation, it might have a solution...