Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Females flop onto the smoother ice to bear their offspring. The newborn pups, plump bundles of snow-white fur, with limpid dark eyes and chic whiskers, spend a full month bleating helplessly on the ice and fattening on the richest maternal milk produced by any mammal. At the end of the month, when their fur darkens, they are ready for the water...
Until recently, Brazilian students were prone to expend their youthful idealism on attacking their universities. Ironically, most of them ignored the nearby favelas, the big-city slums that cry out for reform. Instead, they seemed to spend the winter rioting, the summer on the beaches or touring Europe. All too many were privileged rebels without a cause-a familiar phenomenon at other universities throughout the world...
When it comes to negotiating contracts, many team owners feel that an agent's work adds up to a minus. "We spend $200,000 a year in evaluating talents," says the Houston Oilers' Don Klosterman, "and some uninformed agent is going to tell us what a player's worth? They're just parasites, in it for a fast buck...
...Plan's emphasis on preventive medicine. Patients covered under the plan wouldn't just be invited to come in for yearly check-ups. The plan requires them to go through a series of initial tests and to follow up with also hire a staff of recruiters who will spend their time rounding up patients for preventive treatments...
Medical statisticians have run studies comparing group practice plans with normal family doctor care. What they've found is that patients who use institutionalized groups practice facilities -- like California's private Kaiser Plan clinics--spend much less money on health care than do patients of single physicians. The saving may come because each doctor can see more patients; or it may be because the cluster of specialists make preventive medicine more effective. But clear. Each medical care dollar goes farther when spent in group-practice clinics...