Word: spend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every time the Undergraduate Council looks under the cushions of its proverbial couch, it finds money. At last night's meeting, the council voted to spend a newly discovered $2,400 on a brand new computer...
...most difficult and time consuming part was becoming American--I'm not gifted with accents or dialects, and I had to spend a lot of time trying to lose my Scottish accent. I also worked for six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. To begin with it was scary because I was working with people who had committed atrocious crimes-it was a high security place--but by the end of it I was fairly sad to leave...
...being plunked down. If you catch yourself in this trap--ignoring your expenditures because, "hey, I'm just going to see a movie"--then it's probably a good idea to remind yourself exactly what this proposition consists of. You are paying good money for the privilege of spending two hours sitting down. Now this seems obvious enough, probably even condescending, but you'd be surprised what people will spend good money to sit down--and waste their time--in front...
EDITOR'S NOTE: TIME Daily writer Frank Pellegrini, at a ripe 27 years, has taken a leave of absence to join the Army Reserve. He is currently undergoing basic training - boot camp - and then will spend several months in an Army journalism school. Given the difficulty the armed forces are experiencing in recruiting qualified young people these days, we think his experiences and impressions are worth sharing. His dispatches, some handwritten and snail-mailed (Internet cafes are evidently not part of the standard equipment at basic training), are arriving irregularly. Here is the first, and others will be posted...
...spend your time thinking about the issues like we do, it's important that you try to have an influence," Fried says...