Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farouk "symbolized a classically misspent life" [March 26]! O TIME! Give me Farouk's life-and I shall take his death! Give me 30-room hotel suites, belly dancers and beauty queens; make me spend my nights gambling $100,000 away; make me know every call girl in Rome by name. And then, TIME, give me that sordid death-I shall give you my social security, my medicare, my rocking chair, and my clean, "well-spent" past, present and future...
...Great Society: President Johnson's $1.3 billion education bill to provide federal aid to primary and secondary schools. The measure would grant $100 million for textbooks and library books, $100 million for supplemental education centers such as labmobiles, and $1 billion-plus for public school districts to spend as they see fit. For a district to qualify, 3% or more of its pupils would have to be "needy" (from families with less than $2,000 income)-which takes in approximately 90% of the nation's school districts...
Next it became the XB-70A-with the X standing for experimental. Under congressional pressure, McNamara finally agreed to spend $1.4 billion to build two prototypes...
...building a $30 million L-D plant in Russia and is considering a deal to put up a rolling mill in North Korea. Austria has also signed a series of barter treaties with Russia and the satellites, manages to run a payments surplus because foreign tourists spend $523 million a year to enjoy its Alps and its Gemiitlichkeit...
...scholars may have new fields and new sources opened to them, what about the politicians? The Institute will be in Cambridge, not Washington, and Neustadt admits that no practicing politician will be willing to spend any length of time away from...