Word: spend
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Kristin N. Javaras '99-'00 of Kirkland House and Ilyana Kuziemko '00 of Currier House will spend the next year to two years studying at Oxford as a part of the coveted scholarship, which has been awarded for the last 97 years...
...artillery, though the dirty, killing work of real combat will probably increase as the Russian troops approach Grozny, the Chechen capital. Reports filtering out of the front lines are filled with talk of shortages of warm clothes, sleeping bags, gloves and socks for the troops, who will have to spend a bitterly cold winter in the open...
Always the outsider, Son didn't have much of a Silicon Valley Rolodex in 1995, when he returned to the States. But he did have nearly a billion dollars to spend, money practically handed to him by Japanese bankers desperate to breathe life into their country's sagging economy. Son lured a couple of Silicon Valley veterans to run Softbank Technology Ventures, the San Jose partnership that has become the heart of his Internet empire. And so the shopping spree began, as Softbank scooped up the trade-show group that organizes Comdex, the computer industry's biggest convention, and Kingston...
...matter. The Brit female thing worked. Lara was unusual enough to become an icon, and Tomb Raider was addictive enough to prompt millions of men--and, for the first time, large numbers of women--to spend long nights at the console. Smith, who naively thought he'd seen the last of Tomb Raider, had to spend many more long nights (two years' worth per game) devising enough fiendish traps and puzzles for three sequels...
Researchers say family caregivers too often exhaust themselves, their relationships and their finances in caring for an older relative--caregivers spend about $1.5 billion each month out of pocket, for instance. The strain is often made worse by the fact that families aren't prepared for the role of caregiver. In addition to coping with the sadness of a loved one's illness, they simply don't know what to do or where to turn to relieve the burden. Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., gerontologist and author of Age Power, suggests that the most vital thing a caregiver can do is find...