Word: spend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This money was from more than one year. To spend it all in one year is fiscally irresponsible," said Jeffrey A. Letalien '00, a Quincy House representative...
...term-bill failed because we asked people to spend more of their own money, and that's a very difficult thing to pass," Seton said...
Building one is no cakewalk, however. Sites are difficult to acquire. Prospective residents must spend years in long meetings with architects, bureaucrats and neighborhood groups. They must be willing to put up thousands in advance for units that cost slightly more than mainstream condos. (One-bedroom Southside flats went for $87,000, though the city provided generous loans to the cash poor. Homeowners' dues range from $100 to $150 a month.) And the endless meetings continue after everyone moves in. Instead of delegating to a board of directors or voting, Southside residents, like most cohousers, make every decision by consensus...
...point Harris gets very quiet. His parents have probably noticed that he's become distant, withdrawn lately--but it's been for their own good. "I don't want to spend any more time with them," he says. "I wish they were out of town so I didn't have to look at them and bond more...
Students at Columbine don't want to wait that long. Eleven of them--their backgrounds as diverse as can be hoped for in this mostly white, Abercrombie and Fitch community--spend an hour one morning sitting around the conference table in the front office. They're brainstorming about what they've learned from their tragedy, and what they plan to do so that it never happens again. "I don't tease my friends as much as I used to," says freshman Kent Van Zant. "I try to be a lot nicer now to everybody...