Word: spending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...file provided the bulk of the research for the story written by Keith Johnson and edited by Laurence Barrett. And as the magazine went to press, where was Fentress? In a jet once more, flying west to San Clemente and the West Coast White House, where the President will spend the next month. All of which led Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey to wonder if perhaps "the White House Press Room really shouldn't be a surplus Boeing 707 fuselage, where reporters can stay all day, writing stories, pinching stewardesses and drinking Bloody Marys." That, at least, is what...
They have come to spend a summer at Harvard, to get some idea of what America is like, and to get to know one another...
...spiritual cripples and their hidden regret for their wasted talent eats away at them to such an extent that their wretched existence cannot be called life but rather a caricature of life. It would probably be difficult to think up a worse punishment for oneself than to have to spend one's whole life trembling, cringing, trying fearfully to get the sense of the latest order and fearing to make the slightest mistake...
...result, people become slaves of the possessions and services that compete to fill their leisure hours. "One may possibly buy more of everything," he writes, "but one cannot conceivably do more of everything." To belong to a golf club as well as a sailing club is to spend half one's time going from one to the other, the other half observing all the social amenities that they entail...
...unclear. It does tend to hurt landlords, though clever speculators can usually find a way over, under, or around such a law, creating a black market in housing. It hampers new construction, and consequently reduces a city's potential tax base (and the amount of money it has to spend)--but the time needed for major damage to new construction is primarily guesswork. On paper, rent control laws are an added weapon for building code enforcement, but they are also a major inducement for increasing deterioation of buildings...