Word: spend
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...White House. It also means that greater freedom of action in routine matters will be entrusted to the operating departments, particularly State. Nixon, said Kissinger, "urged me to make sure that his staff and his advisers free themselves for long-range thinking to prevent crises from happening, rather than spend all of their energies on managing crises that might have been avoided...
...water and eggs. Last year the company acquired the nationally franchised chain of Burger King diners. That move capitalized on a number of trends: the nation's increasing mobility and affluence, the fast growth of roadside restaurants and the rapid expansion of franchising. Pillsbury estimates that Americans spend $22 billion a year eating out, and the figure will double by 1975. There are close to 500 Burger King outlets now, and the number is growing by two a week...
...NIGHT of August 26, NBC's camera crew was sent to Lincoln Park, where the first real confrontation between police and protesters was expected to take place. The demonstrators were determined to spend the night there; the police had been instructed to run them...
...matter what the Russians do, the U.S. astronauts should be on their way moonward on or soon after Dec. 21. Colonel Frank Borman and Major William Anders, both Air Force officers, and Navy Captain James Lovell are already at Cape Kennedy, spending 16 hours a day in preparing for every detail of a complex mission that has been planned and plotted to the last second. They spend 20 hours a week in simulators, training their minds and hands to react almost automatically to every conceivable contingency...
Armour & Co., the second biggest packer, was the first to recognize the need for change, and is spending $250 million on new facilities. Now Swift, the biggest of all, has joined the renaissance. It is closing 250 antiquated plants, and will spend $143 million on new, decentralized packing and slaughtering houses. They will replace cumbersome, multistory buildings in such places as Kansas City and Omaha. Says Vice President Paul Steinbrink: "We are moving closer to the sources of supply, where the animals...