Word: spending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise gesture of friendliness, Khrushchev invited the Nixons, Milton Eisenhower and Ambassador Thompson to spend that night at his cream-colored dacha 20 miles outside Moscow. The invitation was promptly accepted...
...land reform is the first real attempt in ten years to spend some of Venezuela's $800 million a year in oil revenues to develop the backlands. Thousands of farmers who have fled from-rural poverty to the city slums may now begin to drift back to the farm. The plan will cost $240 million the first year, $7 billion in all. Only the Communists denounced the plan as too moderate and refused to sign the commission's report. The other parties agreed with Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias Blanco, who declared that passage of the bill "will...
...dozen years ago, young leukemia patients lived an average of only three or four months, mostly in misery, after their disease was diagnosed. Now the average is at least a year; some live two or three years, and a few still longer. During their remissions the children appear healthy, spend most of their time at home playing happily...
...businesses need "effective competitive intelligence systems" to hold their own in today's competitive business world-and that setting them up on a formal, ethical basis may do away with a lot of hanky-panky. It also sounds a warning through the words of one executive: "If you spend too much time finding out what your competitor is doing, you may be spending too little time developing newer products and processes of your own. You become less imaginative, less dynamic, less resourceful...
Belle herself was less interested in money than she was in fun. She was delighted when Bert Swift "began to spend some of his pork fat on me," but she was always ready to go racing off to Arabia with only one maid and 85 hats to dynamite for turquoise in the desert, or to make a casual bet that she could go around the world on ?5. She won that bet. On the trip she dined with Lord Kitchener in a dahabeah on the Nile, made an expedition by elephant through the Ceylonese jungle, married an Italian count...